100 Top Treasures.

The article presents information about the top 100 art objects. A commemorative figure of a king by a Bangwa carver brought $1.07 million, the highest price for a work of African art since 2000. Everett Shinn's "Stage Scene," a 1906 depiction of two vaudeville starlets taking a bow, brought $7,848,000 at a Sotheby's auction in December 2004, an auction record for the artist. The sculptural mask made by the Mandinka people of southern Mali between the early 19th and early 20th centuries was used to celebrate the initiation of young males into manhood.