Arts Tribaux LLC

George Hegarty spent his life-long career as a full-time professor and/or executive at ten universities and other educational institutions around the world. This includes working at universities in Africa (West, Central, and East) and Asia (Southeast and East), in regions where the majority of objects in this sale originated. Eight of these academic years were funded by Fulbright grants. As a professor, he taught, researched, published, and exhibited tribal art. His interdisciplinary doctorate included a dissertation (1978) on the literary theme of art forgery. He has curated twenty-one mutually exclusive exhibitions of tribal art at several institutions of higher education since the 1970s, solely of objects from his personal collection.

In his early years, George obtained his first authentic tribal art objects in the fifties as a schoolboy. First purchased from markets in Africa in the sixties when he was a college student. Continued collecting tribal art while living in an African village as a Peace Corps volunteer starting in 1970. Bought tribal art in the seventies as a permanent resident of Australia when New Guinea was its territory. And began trading tribal art before 1980. For over a half century, he has aggressively visited museums, galleries, and markets on every inhabited continent. Since 1980 especially, his collecting has increased voluminously during his international career living in eleven countries on five continents. Today, his tribal art collection consists of over three thousand objects.