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Falck, Roger
born 1903, died 1973
Musée de l'Homme, Paris
poster to the exhibition: Les chefs d'oeuvre de l'Amérique Précolombienne
1947
colour lithograph on thin paper
78 cm x 57 cm
print: Imp. Bedos & Cie Paris
damages by use, restored paper losses in the middle and upper right, restored tears at the right border (see additional pictures)
order no. 25283
Roger Falck and his wife Éveline Lot-Falck worked in the Musée de l'Homme in Paris and was responsible for a couple of publications.
The motive of the poster is used also on the cover of the catalogue. See there no.178: "BIJOU en or composé de deux animaux stylisés (lézards ou crocodiles?), réunis par une barrette. (...) Longueur 59 mm. Largeure. 51 mm. CIV. QUIMBAYA. Còlombie."
Compare the Navajo weaven works by Marilou Schultz (geb.1954 in USA - Leupp /Arizona), showed at the documenta 14 in Kassel and the types of chips by the Fairchild Corporation in Shiprock/New Mexico !
Lit.:
Catalogue de l'Exposition: Chefs-d'Oeuvre de l'Amérique Précolombienne. XXVIIIe Congrès International des Américanistes, Paris, 24-30 Aout 1947, Cinquantenaire de la Société des Américanistes. Palais de Chaillot, Paris 1947
Peltier-Caroff, Carine: Les années folles de l'ethnographie. In: Jokkoo, Les Amis du Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, no. 30, 30 mars - mai 2018, p. 12
Compare the Navajo weaven works by Marilou Schultz (geb.1954 in USA - Leupp /Arizona), showed at the documenta 14 in Kassel and the types of chips by the Fairchild Corporation in Shiprock/New Mexico
