Review of the exhibition "Mémoire d'Afrique: l'Afrique noire dans les collections du Musée du Périgord, hommage à Maurice Féaux." The Musée du Périgord, like many French provincial museums, has surprisingly rich collection of African art. Maurice Féaux was the curator responsible for acquiring most of this collection during the heyday of ethnographic museums and the great conquests of Africa.
Interestingly, Féaux simultaneously built a private collection of artifacts, a practice not then frowned upon. Today both the Féaux public and private collections are in the Musée du Perigord, and this exhibition catalog commemorates his contributions by selecting more than 300 superior objects. Féaux was helped in his acquisitions by several key Africanists and collectors from the province--notably, Stéphane Thirion-Montauban, Alphonse de Fleuieu, Lucien Bonis, Captain Binger, and Louis Didon.
For the exhibition catalog, see Mémoire d'Afrique: l'Afrique noire dans les collections du Musée du Périgord. N7380.5.M53 1992 AFA.
