TEFAF New York Spring 2024

Donald Ellis Gallery is pleased to participate in TEFAF New York Spring 2024, held at the Park Avenue Armory, May 10-14, with an invitation-only preview on May 09, 2024.

The gallery will present an extraordinary exhibition of historical Indigenous art from Alaska alongside a highly important group of Plains Ledger Drawings. Highlights include a rare selection of Yup'ik dance masks, a number of which were previously owned by Surrealist artists Enrico Donati, Roberto Matta, and their close friend the art historian Robert Lebel. Composed of heterogeneous materials such as driftwood, feathers, and tufts of hair, the Surrealists considered these masks akin to their own thought and practice because of the use of assemblage and their relation to visions and dreams. Collecting non-Western art formed an important aspect of Surrealist practice, and the Yup'ik masks in this exhibition are among the finest examples of their kind left in private hands. Other highlights include a rare Yup'ik fiddle, a fine group of Inupiaq portrait masks, and a selection of finely carved snow goggles dating from 300-500 CE to the late 19th century.