Over the past 40 years, we have been developing our business in the arts of Africa, Oceania and Asia.
After running our own art gallery in Paris from 1984 to 1995, since 1993 we have formed the two poles of an appraisal firm specializing in African, Oceanic and Asian art.

For more than 30 years, we have been providing expert appraisal services to notaries, judicial commissioners and auction houses, as well as advice to individuals and institutions wishing to :
- Determine the value of their fine art holdings
- Insure or reinsure their collections
- Prepare their inheritance or the division of their estate
- Research the provenance and history of your art objects as part of the fight against illicit trafficking in cultural goods, to reduce the risk of recourse in future transactions.
- Obtain advice or assistance in buying or selling an art object, whether from a dealer, a private individual or an auction house, in France or abroad.

Our knowledge of the market and collectors around the world enables us to provide the most accurate identifications and estimates possible, and to optimize the sale of your objects or collections by choosing the mode, place and timing of sale.

Our scope of activity also extends to technical assistance for the organization of exhibitions and the inventory of collections.

If you wish to :
- entrust us with the sale of an object or collection
- ask us to find an object for you
- or simply meet us for a consultation,
It is essential to make an appointment
Tel. 00.33.6.09.22.55.13
aaoarts@aaoarts.com

You can also send us photographs of your objects, and we'll give you an initial opinion, which will of course need to be confirmed by an examination of the pieces themselves.
These documents can be sent by e-mail, or via wetransfer for large files.

- For all written documents (sharing, insurance...) and other operations, the amount of our fees is to be agreed in advance depending on the case.

Over the past thirty years, we have been pleased to disperse thousands of objects, some of them unique, rediscovered items such as the famous Fang-Mvaï bust from the former collection of sculptor Jacob Epstein, forgotten for over 50 years in a collection in the south of France, a rare Hungana pendant found in Belgium, or collections such as the Ho Dinh collection of Vietnamese art, the collection of tribal art assembled by the painter Fernand Deveze (1895-1962), the Gérard Labre collection of Himalayan art, the Franco Ignazio Castelli collection of Oceanic art, the collections of the fashion designer Kenzo Takada, the collection of Lega objects assembled by F. Juvel, the Vietnamese art collection of Dr. Jochen May, the Indian art collection of Ambassador Francine Henrich, the Chinese art collection of Professor Louis Hambis (1906-1978), the collection of Tibetologist André Migot, the collection of Tibetologist Ariane MacDonald, or the three dispersals in 2020, 2021 and 2022 of the Rousset family's vast collections of Asian and tribal art, initiated in 1920 by Robert Rousset (1901-1981), founder of the famous "Galerie d'Art de la Compagnie de la Chine et des Indes" on avenue de Friedland in Paris. (cf. The Rousset saga)

In parallel, since 1993 we have been working on a catalog raisonné of the now-dispersed fragments of the mythical eight tashigomangs erected between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries at the famous Densatil monastery in Tibet (cf. Densatil project).