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Ladislas Segy
Ladislas Segy was a Czech art dealer, collector, researcher and author. Born on February 10, 1904 in Budapest, Hungary, Segy moved to Paris at age 18, where he would remain for the...view moreLadislas Segy was a Czech art dealer, collector, researcher and author. Born on February 10, 1904 in Budapest, Hungary, Segy moved to Paris at age 18, where he would remain for the next 20 years. It was in Paris that he discovered his interest in African art, and began reading everything on the subject and avidly documenting all that he saw. Over the course of the following years, he gave more than 600 lectures on African art all over the world and published dozens of books and articles on the subject, including African Sculpture Speaks and Masks of Black Africa. He also organized traveling exhibitions of African art, which were primarily located at universities and small museums. Despite a volume of output that would be daunting to any academic, he never considered himself a scholar but instead a perpetual student. Originally wishing to be a painter, Segy found that he was better at selling art, particularly Modernist paintings, and he eventually settled in New York, where there was a demand for these artworks, and where he found local opportunities for collectors to acquire them. He died in New York in January 1988 at the age of 83.view less