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QUENTIN BLAZY
PRE-COLUMBIAN ART
A Pre-Columbian art lover since ever, Quentin started working in 2008 alongside his father, Jacques Blazy, as an international expert for auction houses such as  Binoche and Giquello in Paris. 
He also advises private collectors and contributed to the organisation of numerous exhibitions such as The Fifth Sun at the President Jacques Chirac Museum in Sarran in 2012.   
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CHRISTIAN LOEBEN
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES
Christian Loeben is a specialist in Ancient Egypt. Since 2004, he is a curator at Hanover’s August Kestner Museum, head of the Ancient Egypt and Islam collections. He curated more than a dozen exhibitions. In 2012 and 2021, Christian was part of the scientific evaluation committee for the Egyptology departments of the Louvre and the Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig. He is a member of several art fairs’ vetting committees such as BAAF, BRAFA and TEFAF Maastricht.
CHRISTIAN LOEBEN
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PHILIPPE PELTIER
OCEANIA & MALAY ARCHIPELAGO
Philippe Peltier is a curator emeritus. A trained anthropologist and Art Historian, he conducted many field researches and, more specifically, in the 1980s, a two-year study in the Sepik Valley, and another in New Ireland. In the 1990s, he became head of the Oceania collection of the Musée national des arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie before joining the new Musée du quai Branly as the museographic project director’s assistant then as head of the Oceania-Malay Archipelago heritage unit.
He is currently working on the history of the Oceanian collection of the Musée national des arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie and New York’s Museum of Primitive Art.
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GUY & TITUS VAN RIJN
AFRICAN ART
Guy van Rijn is the son of “Lode” van Rijn and “Leo” Rubbens who were both artists and collectors. Due to the sheer passion of Lode to collect in that time Non-European art: Antiquities, Oceanic, pre-Columbian and African art he opened Khepri gallery in Amsterdam in 1966. For a short time, Guy helped out in the gallery however he was always more interested in the history of the pieces. In the 1980’s Guy started his archive on African Art and soon followed with the Who’s Who in African Art. From 2000 to 2010 he worked for Yale University which houses the “Yale University Art Gallery-van Rijn Archive of African Art”.
Since late 2016, his son, Titus is working with him archiving African Art in the “African Heritage Documentation & Research Centre (AHDRC)” database. This database is curated by the Non-Profit Organisation, under the same name, which maintains daily operations.
This online database on African Art has grown to the be the biggest of its kind thanks to the help of many other people, special mention to François Mottas.
AHDRC
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DR ANDRÉ WIESE
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES
André Wiese is a specialist in Ancient Egypt, an international expert since 1986 and a curator at the Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig since 1997. André created the collection of the Egyptian department and is now head of the permanent collection and the temporary exhibitions. In 2004, he curated the Toutankhamon – L’Or de l’au-delà exhibition, in cooperation with the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities.