Market dispatch·Paris
Giquello brings Oceania and Africa tribal art sale to Hôtel Drouot
The house Giquello, led by Alexandre Giquello and Violette Stcherbatcheff, staged an "Arts of Oceania and Africa" auction at Hôtel Drouot in Paris on 2 October 2026 at 2 p.m. in room 2. The sale was announced by the CEEA on 1 October 2026, with viewings across the three preceding days.

Paris's Hôtel Drouot was due to host an auction of tribal and Oceanic art on Friday 2 October 2026, when the house Giquello — led by Alexandre Giquello and Violette Stcherbatcheff — staged its "Arts of Oceania and Africa" sale at 2 p.m. in room 2 of the auction complex at 9 rue Drouot in the 9th arrondissement. The sale notice was published on the CEEA site on 1 October 2026. The catalogue covers the two classic collecting fields of the Paris tribal-art market: the arts of Oceania, from the Pacific islands, and the arts of Africa. Public viewings were scheduled across three days — Wednesday 30 September from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday 1 October from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and a final morning session on Friday 2 October from 11 a.m. to noon — giving collectors and dealers a last look before the afternoon session. The full list of lots was made available through the house and on the drouot.com platform, and a PDF catalogue was linked from the announcement. The notice, first posted on 1 October and updated on 3 October, sits in the CEEA site's member-news stream, the section where the circle relays auction announcements from its expert and collector members. A phone line (+33 (0)1 48 00 20 02) was provided for inquiries during the exhibition period. Giquello is among the Paris houses that keep a regular tribal-art calendar at Drouot, and October sales of this kind are a fixture of the autumn season for the sector in France.


