October 31, 2015

81st Tribal Art Auction

A rich and diverse selection: Important and powerful sculptures and masks from Africa, Australia, Asia and Oceania. Sensitive and delicate barkpaintings from the western Arnhemland. Samurai armaments from the Edo Period. A fine old Netsuke collection. Ceramics from the Nazca culture as well as works from the Inuit and First Nations.

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Highlights

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Lot 14: Superb anthropomorphic (ancestor) mask, around 1800
Lot 42: Fine old netsuke: Flute playing boy riding on the back of a bull, 19th century
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Lot 44: Samurai armour, Edo period
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Lot 45: Samurai armour, Edo period
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Lot 76: Overmodelled ancestor skull, before 1920
Lot 90: Large standing figure
Lot 105: Large ceremonial food platter
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Lot 112: Figure of a deity
Lot 115: Barkpainting: "Barramundi"
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Lot 123: Parrying shield
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Lot 169: Mask "anbai" or "nyangbai"
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Lot 185: Mask "dyodyomini"
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Lot 186: Vessel's lid with sitting male figure on top "ogo banya" or "ogo koro"
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Lot 187: Standing figure
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Lot 188: Standing female figure with child
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Lot 189: Standing male figure with raised arms
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Lot 190: Sitting male figure
Lot 191: Standing figure
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Lot 211: Standing male figure "blolo bian"
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Lot 214: Horned mask "kpan"
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Lot 215: Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group
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Lot 229: Mask
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Lot 241: Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head
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Lot 245: Mask "bugle"
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Lot 249: Standing male figure
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Lot 305: Standing female figure
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Lot 310: Rare ram heads "osamasinmi"
Lot 311: Court attendant with ceremonial sword "eben"
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Lot 335: Superb title stool
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Lot 376: Throne, around 1900
Lot 390: Helmet mask
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Lot 392: Rare, old Commemorative Figure of a King "fon", late 19th century
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Lot 406: Female puppet
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Lot 409: Reliquary guardian figure "mbulu-ngulu" ("spirit of a deceased")
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Lot 410: Reliquiary figure "mboy"
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Lot 424: Power figure "nkisi", before 1929
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Lot 426: Bell mask "alunga"
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Lot 436: Standing male ancestor figure "singiti"
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Lot 451: Mask "lukungu"
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Lot 452: Standing hermaphrodite "iginga" of "bwami" society
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Lot 495: Standing male power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 499: Old helmet mask "hemba", around 1900
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Lot 529: Mask "mwana pwo"

81st Tribal Art Auction

Lot 413 : Trumpet
Gabon, Fang/Tsogho
Joop Schafthuizen (Dutch), lived in France with the famous writer Gerard Reve Christie's, Amsterdam, 12 May 1998, lot 89 Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany German Private Collection
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 414 : Standing female ancestor figure "gheonga"
Gabon, Tsogho
Yannick de Hondt, Brugge, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 415 : Standing female ancestor figure "gheonga"
Gabon, Tsogho
Yannick de Hondt, Brugge, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 416 : Rare old mask
D. R. Congo/Gabon, border area, Ndjabi
not available anymore
Lot 417 : Friction oracle "iwa"
D. R. Congo, Azande
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 418 : Friction oracle "iwa"
D. R. Congo, Azande
not available anymore
Lot 419 : Standing figure
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
not available anymore
Lot 420 : Standing figure
D. R. Congo, Bakongo / Sundi
White Fathers (Missionary Society), Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 421 : Sitting figure with necklace
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
Adam Prout, Worcestershire, Great Britain
not available anymore
Lot 422 : Cross-legged male ancestor figure
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
Dutch Collection
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 423 : Kneeling power figure
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
Philippe Guimiot, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 424 : Power figure "nkisi", before 1929
D. R. Congo, Bakongo/Mayombe/Vili
Wilhelm Voss, Wuppertal, Germany (acquired in 1929) Dutch Collection (1934) English Collection Gerd Hanebeck, Wuppertal, Germany (since 1987) Gerd Hanebeck (*1939) is a german painter, graphic and object artist, living and working in Wuppertal. His artistic oeuvre is influenced by the cultures of Western Africa and the ritual cults of the Western African tribes. His oeuvre comprises paintings, sculptures, drawings, object cases, material pictures and works in terracotta. He himself has never been in Africa, which is why Hanebeck is jokingly called the "painting Karl May".
sold EUR 20,000
Lot 425 : Ritual staff of the "khimba" initiation society
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
Christie's, Paris, 16 June 2009, lot 280
not available anymore
Lot 426 : Bell mask "alunga"
D. R. Congo, Bembe II (Eastern Bembe)
Sotheby's, New York,15 November 1985, lot 109 Swiss Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 427 : Mask
D. R. Congo, Bwaka
sold EUR 1,340
Lot 428 : Half figure
D. R. Congo, Bwaka
Ton-Peter Widdershoven, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
not available anymore
Lot 429 : Female ancestor spirit mask
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
Paolo Morigi, Magliaso, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 430 : Rare pig mask "ngulu"
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 750
Lot 431 : Comb
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
sold EUR 500
Lot 432 : Small female figure
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
Dutch Private Collection
sold EUR 900
Lot 433 : Standing figure
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
not available anymore
Lot 434 : Caryatid cup
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 435 : Small chief's stool
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 436 : Standing male ancestor figure "singiti"
D. R. Congo, Hemba
Collection Larson, Malmö, Sweden
sold EUR 5,000
Lot 438 : Standing male ancestor figure "singiti"
D. R. Congo, Hemba
J. Schotte, Ghent, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 439 : Power half figure "kakudji"
D. R. Congo, Hemba
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 440 : Figural pendant
D. R. Congo, Hungana
sold EUR 32,000
Lot 441 : Mask
D. R. Congo, Ituri
French Collection
not available anymore
Lot 442 : Half figure
D. R. Congo, Kasongo
not available anymore
Lot 443 : Primitive money
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 444 : Small standing figure
D. R. Congo, Kuba
sold EUR 300
Lot 445 : Fly whisk
D. R. Congo, Kuba
sold EUR 600
Lot 446 : Friction oracle "itombwa"
D. R. Congo, Kuba
sold EUR 900
Lot 447 : Anthropomorphic mask
D. R. Congo, Kwese
not available anymore
Lot 448 : Round stool
D. R. Congo, Lega
Lore Kegel & Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany (1958)
not available anymore
Lot 450 : Anthropomorphic figure
D. R. Congo, Lega
Han Coray, Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 12,000
Lot 451 : Mask "lukungu"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Swedish Collection (since 1935) Bertil Berg, Gothenburg, Sweden
not available anymore
Lot 452 : Standing hermaphrodite "iginga" of "bwami" society
D. R. Congo, Lega
Bertil Berg, Gothenburg, Sweden
not available anymore
Lot 453 : Ritual knife
D. R. Congo, Lega
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 900
Lot 454 : Small whistle
D. R. Congo, Lega
sold EUR 400
Lot 455 : Mask "mfondo"
D. R. Congo, Lwalwa
Michel Koenig, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 456 : Janiform power half figure "kakudji"
D. R. Congo, Luba
John & Nicole Dintenfass, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 457 : Power half figure "kakudji"
D. R. Congo, Luba
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 1,400
Lot 458 : Power half figure "kakudji"
D. R. Congo, Luba
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 459 : Miniature power figure
D. R. Congo, Luba
sold EUR 150
Lot 460 : Ritual implement
D. R. Congo, Luba
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland Swiss Private Collection
sold EUR 1,090
Lot 461 : Janiform charm figure
D. R. Congo, Luba
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 1,120
Lot 462 : Beautiful old charm
D. R. Congo, Luba
not available anymore
Lot 463 : Amulet figure
D. R. Congo, Luba
not available anymore
Lot 464 : Small anthropomorphic half figure
D. R. Congo, Luba
Deveze-Bergognon, France André Derain, Paris, France Jean-Paul Agogué, Paris, France
sold EUR 800