November 30, 2013

75th tribal art auction

Fine old art from Africa, Asia, Australia, Oceania and America. The Private Collections Eduard Hess (Oberwil near Basel, Switzerland), Antonio Fiacco (Zurich, Switzerland) as well as Heinz Kolerski (Fellbach, Germany).

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Highlights

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Lot 4: Ancestor figure "adu zatua"
Lot 32: Hook mask "garra"
Lot 76: Portrait mask of a notable "mblo"
Lot 83: Mask "kpelie"
Lot 88: Mask
Lot 100: Oracle bowl "agere ifa"
Lot 106: Mask of a dignitary
Lot 113: Fragment of a half figure "iran otibago"
Lot 114: Standing female figure "jo nyeleni"
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Lot 115: Standing figure with headdress "dege"
Lot 131: Mask "nsembu"
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Lot 133: Kneeling bowl bearer "mboko"
Lot 137: Mask "phumbu"
Lot 150: Antelope mask "ntomo"
Lot 152: Altar with four figures
Lot 154: Mask "waka kakada"
Lot 166: Mask "bagle"
Lot 173: Mask
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Lot 176: Figure of a mother and child
Lot 184: Mask "gelede"
Lot 187: Standing female figure
Lot 188: Small head
Lot 193: Female mask "La belle Madeleine"
Lot 199: Frog "kitende"
Lot 212: Standing female figure
Lot 223: Dance headdress "zigiren wonde"
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Lot 233: Sitting female figure "jo nyeleni"
Lot 240: Horizontal helmet mask "warakun" oder "kòmòkun"
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Lot 246: Female figure
Lot 247: Standing figure of a hermaphrodite
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Lot 264: Standing female figure "blolo bla"
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Lot 265: Standing male ancestor figure "blolo bian"
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Lot 273: Mask with horns "kpan pre"
Lot 292: Standing female figure
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Lot 293: Standing male figure "doogélé"
Lot 337: Standing male figure
Lot 340: Statue for male aggression "iphri"
Lot 376: Standing male figure
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Lot 380: Helmet mask with four faces "ngontang"
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Lot 383: Gong "mokenge"
Lot 392: Fragment of an ancestor figure
Lot 399: Male ancestor figure "singiti"
Lot 406: Pestle
Lot 407: Power half figure "kakudij"
Lot 417: Standing figure
Lot 418: Big round mask "kifwebe"
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Lot 426: Janushead crest
Lot 441: Small power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 442: Standing male power figure "nkisi"
Lot 449: Standing female figure
Lot 459: Standing female figure with mourning gesture

75th tribal art auction

Lot 105 : Zoomorphic mask
Cameroon, Mambila
Ketterer, Munich, 4 May 1979, lot 154 Hans Dietrich Rielau, Hösbach, Germany Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach, Germany
sold EUR 100
Lot 106 : Mask of a dignitary
Cameroon Grassfields, Oku
Ferdinand Herrmann, Heidelberg, Germany Nagel, Stuttgart, 7 November 2000, lot 604 Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach near Stuttgart, Germany
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 107 : Iron currency
Cameroon
Alain Dufour, Saint Maur, France Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach, Germany
sold EUR 100
Lot 108 : Box with lid
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach near Stuttgart, Germany
sold EUR 300
Lot 109 : Box with lid
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach near Stuttgart, Germany
sold EUR 140
Lot 110 : Slit drum
D. R. Congo, Yaka
Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach, Germany
sold EUR 550
Lot 111 : Initiation mask "ndeemba"
D. R. Congo, Yaka
Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach near Stuttgart, Germany
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 112 : Equestrian
Cameroon, Kotoko
Karl-Heinz Krieg, Neuenkirchen, Germany Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach near Stuttgart, Germany
sold EUR 600
Lot 113 : Fragment of a half figure "iran otibago"
Guinea-Bissau, Bidjogo
Jean-Michel Huguenin, Paris, France (1974) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,400
Lot 114 : Standing female figure "jo nyeleni"
Mali, Bamana
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland (1967) Hans Hess, Basel, Switzerland P. Berger, Binningen, Switzerland Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 115 : Standing figure with headdress "dege"
Mali, Dogon
René Rasmussen, Paris, France (1952) Hans Hess, Basel, Switzerland (1959) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland (1968)
sold EUR 8,000
Lot 116 : Mask "kagle"
Côte d'Ivoire, Kran
Maria Wyss, Basel, Switzerland Auktionshaus Vogler, Basel, 17.5.2001, lot 46 Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 500
Lot 117 : Standing male figure "blolo bian"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
René David, Zurich, Switzerland (2000) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 118 : Standing figure
Nigeria, Mumuye
Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland (1970)
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 119 : Head sculpture
Cameroon
Eduard Tschopp, Mutenz, Switzerland (1978) René David, Zurich, Switzerland Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 120 : Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Oshogbo Oyo
René David, Zurich, Switzerland (2000) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 500
Lot 121 : Female twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Erin Oyo
Jean Roudillon, Paris, France (1972) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,400
Lot 122 : Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Oshogbo
Ernst Ascher, Paris, France Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 700
Lot 123 : Frightning mask
Cameroon Grassfields, Bafum
Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 450
Lot 124 : Mask "suaga"
Cameroon, Mambila
Helmut Zimmer, Zurich, Switzerland Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 300
Lot 125 : Trumpet
Cameroon, Mambila
Gallery Alibaba, Bordeaux, France (1971) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 750
Lot 126 : Standing figure
Cameroon, Mambila
Hans Hess, Basel, Switzerland (1969) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 127 : Puppet head
Gabon, Fang
Harvey Menist, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1973) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 128 : Reliquary head (?)
Gabon
Hans Hess, Basel, Switzerland (1976) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 129 : Half figure
D. R. Congo, Basikasingo
Maria Wyss, Basel, Switzerland (1976) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 130 : Mask
D. R. Congo, Bwaka
Hans Hess, Basel, Switzerland (1964) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 131 : Mask "nsembu"
D. R. Congo, Kumu
Alain de Monbrison, Paris, France (1990) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 132 : Framed figure "nzambi"
D. R. Congo, Holo
René David, Basel, Switzerland (1962) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 133 : Kneeling bowl bearer "mboko"
D. R. Congo, Luba
Edwin Hubacher, Olten, Switzerland (1969) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 134 : Horned mask "giphogo"
D. R. Congo, Pende
Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland Hans Hess, Basel, Switzerland (1970) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland (1973)
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 135 : Mask "mbuya"
D. R. Congo, Pende
Hans Hess, Basel, Switzerland (1975) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 360
Lot 136 : Small mask with flat head crest
D. R. Congo, Pende
Robert Duperrier, Paris, France (1967) Hans Hess, Basel, Switzerland (1973) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 137 : Mask "phumbu"
D. R. Congo, Pende
Leopold Häfliger, Luzern, Switzerland René David, Zurich, Switzerland (1983) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 138 : Axe
D. R. Congo, Pende
Maria Wyss, Basel, Switzerland (1968) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 139 : Male power figure "phuungu"
D. R. Congo, Yaka
René Rasmussen, Paris, France Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 140 : Mask "mweelu"
D. R. Congo, Yaka
Émile-Francois Chambon, Geneva, Switzerland (1996) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 141 : Small dance crest
D. R. Congo, Zombo
Jean-Louis Ambrosetti, Geneva, Switzerland Michel Egloff, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (1997) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 142 : Mask "kifwebe", male type "kilume"
D. R. Congo, Songye
Sory, Brussels, Belgium (1968) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 3,500
Lot 143 : Anthropomorphic mask
D. R. Congo, Sundi
Toni Dähler, Basel, Switzerland Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 350
Lot 144 : Power figure "biteki"
D. R. Congo, Teke
René David, Zurich, Switzerland (1969) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 145 : Power figure "biteki"
D. R. Congo, Teke
Gallerie Burgui, Paris, France (1969) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 2,600
Lot 146 : Mask
Mozambique, Makua
Hans Hess, Basel, Switzerland (1983) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 147 : Mask
Angola, Ngangela
Vogt, Zurich, Switzerland Brock & Art, Bern Switzerland (1994) Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 148 : Buffalo mask "dugn'be"
Guinea-Bissau, Bidjogo
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 2,200
Lot 149 : Standing male figure
Sierra Leone, Limba/Temne/Loko
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 150 : Antelope mask "ntomo"
Mali, Bamana
Marcel de Schryver, Geneva, Switzerland Galerie Témoin, Geneva, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 151 : Antelope dance crest "tjiwara"
Mali, Bamana
Gilbert Lavarino, Geneva, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,400
Lot 152 : Altar with four figures
Mali, Dogon
Merton Simpson, New York, USA Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 5,000
Lot 153 : Ostrich mask
Mali, Dogon
Maria Wyss, Basel, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 4,500
Lot 154 : Mask "waka kakada"
Mali, Dogon
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 3,300