Donald Ellis Brings A Masterpiece to TEFAF NY

Jason Farago of the New York Times has selected Native American art on view at Donald Ellis Gallery as a highlight from TEFAF New York Spring. The author notes that the fair has 'offerings of notably higher quality than most of its New York competitors.’

Next to modern and contemporary art, TEFAF also presents Egyptian antiquities, African sculpture, and art from Indigenous North America. The New York Times lists a Tlingit beaver-shaped feast bowl, Ledger Art from the Central Plains, and an extraordinary Yup’ik dance mask, once in the collection of the Surrealist Enrico Donati, as standouts of the show. Attributed to the artist Ikamrailnguq (One Without a Sled), Farago writes that the mask is not only ‘a fixed sculptural masterpiece, in colonial Alaska it had more immediate uses, worn in dances to summon clement weather.’