Not quite African art, but also interesting.
---------------------------------------------
"........ In 1924-1925 Yakovlev was back in the journey: passed the famous "Black cruise" firm "Sitroen" - not just an advertising campaign of similar cars, but also ethnographic and zoological expeditions to little-known regions of Africa (Sahara Sudan, Niger, Chad, the Belgian Congo, Mozambique and Madagascar). From this trip, filled with exotic landscapes and the power of human types, bright clothing and ornaments of indigenous Africans, the artist has brought nearly 300 sketches and paintings.
Читать дальше...
228 of them were showcase for the solo exhibition in the Charpentier Gallery in May 1926 and then were almost completely sold out. Yakovlev This brought not only financial independence but also the recognition, and even the Legion of Honor. especially thrilled by all contemporary large group portrait in the growth of all members of the expedition (4.5 x 3 m), remarkably illusion smallest detail - this, in particular, wrote in letters and diaries of eyewitnesses that memorable exhibition - Anna Ostroumova-Lebedev and Konstantin Somov. A year later, the publishing house "Vozhel" which constantly worked Yakovlev, left a picture book about the expedition. Then for Yakovlev finally acquired a reputation for unsurpassed master of plots and exotic ethnic types. Then followed the expedition on safari in Ethiopia in 1928 (with Henry Rothschild), and a new transcontinental trip with "Sitroen "-" Yellow Cruise "in Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia, China and Vietnam in 1931-1932, respectively. The result was a new noisy exhibition in the gallery Charpentier in 1933, where Yakovlev presented for about 500 (!) works, many of whom sold, and 50 - reproduced in color in a unique book publishing house Vozhel "edition of only 500 copies ....."
http://forum.artinvestment.ru/showthread.php?t=6685
A. Yakovlev. "African Sultan.