An antiques dealer who sold a rare African mask for $4.6 million won a legal battle with the elderly couple who sold it to him for $165 without realizing the treasure’s actual worth.

They let the mask go for 150 euros (£130), but in March 2022 it was sold to an unidentified buyer at an auction in the southern city of Montpellier, fetching 4.2 million euros (£3.6million).

Popularly known as the "Krugier-Picasso mask," a 19th century West African mask that will be part of the Jan Krugier Collection sale at Christie's on November 4 was an important inspiration to ...

A carved mask from Central Africa, dating from the 19th century, was sold in France for €4.2 million ($4.6 million) on Saturday, despite Gabonese protesters in the auction house calling for the item’s ...

The couple, in their eighties, sold the wooden mask in September 2021 as part of a number of antiquities including African artifacts they had kept in their secondary home in southern France and ...

The 19th-Century wooden mask was probably acquired "in unknown circumstances" around 1917 by René-Victor Edward Maurice Fournier, a French colonial governor and the plaintiff's grandfather.

Description Wood face mask representing a hare with flat rectangular face broken by rectangular recesses, containing rectangular cut out eyes. Erect ears on top of head and curved ears on sides of ...

A French second-hand art dealer is being sued by a retired couple who allege they sold him a rare 19th-century African mask for just €150, only for him to resell it for a staggering €4.2 million.