17-01-2017 14:46 via theartnewspaper.com

Will Frieze chairman Robert Devereux’s collection of art from Africa and the diaspora return to the continent?

Robert Devereux, the chairman of Frieze and a collector of contemporary art connected to the African continent, as he describes it, is showing part of his collection for the first time in public next month.
The exhibition, When the Heavens Meet the Earth, features more than 35 works from his 350-strong collection, which is usually housed in a restored merchants house in Lamu, Kenya. It opens at The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge, where Devereux studied history, on 25 February (unti
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