For many people, African art still evokes "tribal" sculpture, nothing more.

The showrooms combined modern interior design and lighting with one of the first major collections of African tribal sculpture in London.

Matisse had in his hand when he walked into the room a small African tribal sculpture that he had spotted in a nearby antiques shop.

Inside is a collection of African tribal sculptures that provides a direct link to his native South Africa.

Two of the images here seem based on tribal sculptures.

To Salmon he said he admired tribal sculptures because he found them 'raisonnables'.

But it has been seen that Picasso was also attracted to tribal sculpture because he admired its conceptual quality.

The Christ figure now becomes almost sacklike, and he appears to be resting on her back, like many children in mother-and-child images in tribal sculpture.

A tiny tribal sculpture in one can and a small figure of an African woman in another seem to be fearful or playing.

In the front room are two tribal sculptures, one on the wall, the other knocked over on the floor.