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 155 : Figural door lock
Burkina Faso, Bobo
Marcel de Schryver, Geneva, Switzerland Galerie Témoin, Geneva, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 156 : Sitting figure
Mali, Dogon
van Haersolte, Berlin, Germany Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 2,700
Lot 157 : Protective figure "bateba yadawora"
Burkina Faso, Lobi
Mark Eglinton, New York, USA Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 158 : Standing female protective figure "bateba yadawora"
Burkina Faso, Lobi
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 159 : Pair of protective figures "bateba phuwe"
Burkina Faso, Lobi
Hervé Ronez, Paris, France Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,400
Lot 160 : Seated figure "bateba bambar"/"bateba ti bala"
Burkina Faso, Lobi
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 161 : Half figure
Burkina Faso, Lobi
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 250
Lot 162 : Bird figure
Burkina Faso, Lobi
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 500
Lot 163 : Standing female figure "nakomsé"
Burkina Faso, Mossi
Toni Dähler, Basel, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 164 : Small pair of figures
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 165 : Sitting female figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Dida
Michel Egloff, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Maria Wyss, Basel, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 166 : Mask "bagle"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Christian Debenest, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire Ralf Kotalla, Haigerloch, Germany Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 167 : Small male figure "tugubele"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Maria Wyss, Basel, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 168 : Harp element
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Gilbert Lavarino, Geneva, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 169 : Group of nine anthropomorphic bird sculptures
Togo, Ada
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 170 : Bird mask "geayagle"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Marcel de Schryver, Geneva, Switzerland André Lagneau, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 171 : Slingshot
Ghana, Fante
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 172 : Standing male figure
Ghana, Sisala
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 4,000
Lot 173 : Mask
Nigeria, Basa Nge
Linus Carr, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Great Britain Andre Scaz, Los Angeles, USA Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 7,500
Lot 174 : Post figure
Ghana, Kusasi
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 175 : Face mask of the "egungun" society
Nigeria, Yoruba (Oyo / Shaki Area)
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 176 : Figure of a mother and child
Nigeria, Ibibio
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 177 : Mask
Nigeria, Ibibio
Missine Thiam, Los Angeles, USA Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 178 : Anthropomorphic mask
Nigeria, Idoma
Adriaan Blom, Basel, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 179 : Dance crest
Nigeria, Urhobo/Isoko
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 180 : Mask "amawalu"
Nigeria, Igbo-Afikpo
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 181 : Ceremonial spoon
Niger - Niger Delta, Isoko/Urhobo
Michel Egloff, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 182 : Dance staff "oshe shango"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Anton Stalder, Bern, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 183 : Calabash mask
Nigeria, Yoruba, Ekiti
Galerie Carambol, Basel, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 800
Lot 184 : Mask "gelede"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 185 : Mask
Cameroon Grassfields, Babanki
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland (acquired in Cameroon, 1982)
not available anymore
Lot 186 : Zoomorphic composite being
Cameroon, Mambila
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 187 : Standing female figure
Nigeria/Cameroon, Mambila
Pace Gallery, New York, USA Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 188 : Small head
Cameroon, Yabassi
Carl Franz Bally (died 1899) Eduard Bally-Prior, Schönenwerd, Switzerland Bally Museum, Schönenwerd, Switzerland René David, Zurich, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 3,800
Lot 189 : Mask "okuyi"
Gabon, Punu
Marcel de Schryver, Geneva, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 190 : Mask
D. R. Congo, Biombo
Toni Dähler, Basel, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 700
Lot 191 : Small mask
Gabon, Tsogho
Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland Hans Hess, Basel, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,100
Lot 192 : Female mask "La belle Madeleine"
D. R. Congo, Songe/Zela
Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 193 : Female mask "La belle Madeleine"
D. R. Congo, Songe/Zela
Eduard Hess, Oberwil, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 194 : Dignitary staff
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
Serge Theubet, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 195 : Dignitary staff
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
Gilbert Lavarino, Geneva, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 196 : Mask "lukwakongo"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Toni Dähler, Basel, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 197 : Standing female figure "waiyinda"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 198 : Zoomorphic sculpture "mugugundu"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 199 : Frog "kitende"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Hans Hess, Basel, Switzerland Toni Dähler, Basel, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 2,800
Lot 200 : Batrachian figure
D. R. Congo, Lega
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 201 : Small standing protective figure
D. R. Congo, Lulua
Gilbert Lavarino, Geneva, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 202 : Statuette for the "m-mbwoolu-tsyo" ritual
D. R. Congo, Suku
René David, Zurich, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 203 : Statuette for the "m-mbwoolu-tsyo" ritual
D. R. Congo, Suku
René David, Zurich, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 204 : Standing male power figure "biteki"
D. R. Congo, Suku
René David, Zurich, Switzerland Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore