On August 21, 1959, an article by Marilyn Bender appeared in the New York Times entitled “Fashion Photographer Spurs Primitives’ Art”. The subject of the short article is Ingeborg de Beausacq and her travels in Papua New Guinea. A photograph accompanies the text showing a blonde, glamorous woman seated in a room near her bookshelves. To the left on the counter is a small standing figure from the Sepik river area of Papua New Guinea and behind her on the wall are two masks “from Keram.” It is those two masks that are the subject of this text...
L'histoire de deux masques de la Rivière Keram en Nouvelle-Guinée collectés par Ingeborg de Beausacq en 1957 - séparés puis "retrouvés" et enfin réunis...
