henever a great collection formed by the ex-
ceptional taste, scholarship and intuition of one person
comes up for sale, the result is a kind of material Diaspora.
The late Allan Stone was an omnivore among collectors,
amassing important collections of Abstract Expression-
ist art and so-called primitive art, including hundreds of
works from Africa, buying his first de Kooning painting in
1953, and his first African sculpture, a Kongo Nail figure,
in 1955. In his gallery in the 1950s he juxtaposed works
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Fine Veracruz Figure of a Priestess
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