Whether it's provenance or starting price, there are surprising finds to be made in the Collector's Items Sale, including this wonderfully graceful Baule figure.

His credo: collecting is like science. You only have to expose yourself to art and science long enough and then again and again. That is the only way to get closer to knowledge. Like no other...

A large number of art pieces can be found in noted private collections and in art museums such as the Bundu helmet masks of the Mende-Vai, icons of this mask type, now in the art collection of Vittorio Carini, or the ivory horn which can now be found in the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco. 12 important works will now be on offer.