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Hervé Poulain, conquering the Amerindians of America.

2022-05-17T04:15:21.614Z


Around this unusual theme, some 200 paintings, sculptures and objects that the auctioneer had gathered with his wife Isabelle, in his property in Sologne, are for sale on Tuesday at Artcurial.


It is a completely original collection whose theme has never been seen on the market.

Indians from every angle, big or small, famous or not, it doesn't matter.

No one has yet had the idea of ​​collecting so many pieces relating to these figures from the plains of North America who have fueled many westerns with their fantastic rides.

It is about these Amerindians, first occupants of this continent that the arrival of Europeans, from the 16th century, made disappear little by little, bringing them diseases and bloody wars.

By this colonization, the Amerindians lost the majority of their territory and were forced to integrate reserves.

The beginning of a sad end that we know.

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The trigger for this unpretentious collection, started in the 2000s to decorate my house in Sologne, was born of this empathy for these poorly led peoples, shattered by our peers, of whom very few survived,

explains the auctioneer Hervé Foal…

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Source: lefigaro

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