February 27, 2016

82nd Tribal Art Auction

The private collection of Hans Rielau. Treasures from West Africa and Central Africa. Memorial heads from the Akan. Elegant Baule figures. New Ireland sculptures with historically important provenances. Finely worked combs and basket-works from the South Seas. Old war club from the Ojibwe people (18th century). Voodoo and headhunting objects.

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Highlights

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Lot 5: Female "bulul"
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Lot 11: Shield "kliau"
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Lot 18: Expressive mask with anthropomorphic features
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Lot 26: Mask, 19th century
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Lot 28: Mask "joker", 19th century
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Lot 49: Male "mai" mask
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Lot 64: Beautiful old ancestor spirit figure "blaal"
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Lot 70: Fragment of a large "malagan" mask with figural crest
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Lot 71: Standing male "malagan" figure
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Lot 79: Rare feather currency roll "manahau" or "tevau"
Lot 97: Half of a container, 100 B.C.-200 AD, Old Bering Sea II period
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Lot 106: Horn spoon, early 19th century
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Lot 107: Ball-head war club, late 18th century
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Lot 115: Small mask "ma go"
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Lot 139: Mask
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Lot 153: Female twin figure "ere ibeji", 19th century
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Lot 156: Pair of male twin figures "ere ibeji"
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Lot 157: Female pair of twin figures "ere ibeji
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Lot 163: Elephant mask
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Lot 181: Small mask "lukwakongo"
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Lot 185: Small mask "lukwakongo"
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Lot 216: Mask "mukinka"
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Lot 304: Standing male figure "blolo bian"
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Lot 309: Maternité
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Lot 316: Maske
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Lot 354: Janus helmet mask "wanyugo"
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Lot 396: Standing male figure
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Lot 402: Ancestor figure
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Lot 435: Rare reliquary figure "éyéma-o-byéri"
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Lot 471: Standing male ancestor figure "singiti"
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Lot 526: Mask "mwana pwo"
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Lot 557: Beautiful spoon

82nd Tribal Art Auction

Lot 380 : Mask
Nigeria, Idoma
René & Maud Garcia, Paris, France Yves Créhalet, Paris, France
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 382 : Container
Nigeria, Idoma
Alain Lecomte, Paris, France
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 383 : Figural spoon
Nigeria, Igala
sold EUR 315
Lot 384 : Standing female figure
Nigeria, Igala
Iwanovski, Nancy, France
not available anymore
Lot 385 : Figure "ikenga"
Nigeria, Igbo
J. Loiseau, St. Germain-en-Laye, 23 February 1997, lot 42 Yves Créhalet, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 386 : Standing female shrine figure "alusi"
Nigeria, Igbo
Ladislas Segy, New York, USA German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
sold EUR 350
Lot 388 : Maiden spirit face mask "agbogho mmwo"
Nigeria, Igbo
sold EUR 800
Lot 389 : Cola nut bowl "okwa oji"
Nigeria, Igbo
sold EUR 400
Lot 390 : Shrine figure: bush spirit in shape of a warrior
Nigeria, Ijaw
Allan Stone, New York, USA Sotheby's, New York, The Collection of Allan Stone: African, Oceanic, and Indonesian Art, Vol. I, 15 November 2013, lot 77
not available anymore
Lot 391 : Water spirit mask
Nigeria, Ijaw
sold EUR 600
Lot 392 : Waterspirit mask
Nigeria, Ijaw
Fausto Polo, Baldissero Torinese, Italy
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 393 : Elephant spirit mask "ogbodo enyi"
Nigeria, Izzi
sold EUR 500
Lot 394 : Zoomorphic mask "mangam"
Nigeria, Mama/Kantana
Walter Grieder, Basel, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 395 : Zoomorphic mask "mangam"
Nigeria, Kantana (Mama)
Ulrich von Schroeder, Switzerland
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 396 : Standing male figure
Nigeria, Kantana (Mama)
Christie's, London, 3 April 1979, lot 212 Christie's, London, 29 June 1983, lot 132 James Willis, San Francisco, USA
sold EUR 5,000
Lot 397 : Standing male figure
Nigeria, Mama
not available anymore
Lot 398 : Standing male figure
Nigeria, Montol
German Private Collection, Berlin
not available anymore
Lot 399 : Ancestor figure
Nigeria, Mumuye
Southern German Collection
sold EUR 1,100
Lot 400 : Standing ancestor figure
Nigeria, Mumuye
collected in situ (1972)
not available anymore
Lot 401 : Standing female ancestor figure
Nigeria, Mumuye
collected in situ (1972)
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 402 : Ancestor figure
Nigeria, Mumuye
French Collection, Paris
sold EUR 8,000
Lot 403 : Game board for the "mankala" or "serata" game
Nigeria, Mumuye
Gallery Flak, Paris, France
sold EUR 2,800
Lot 404 : Female mask "wife of va"
Nigeria, Mumuye
Wolfgang Klein, Vienna, Austria
sold EUR 125
Lot 405 : Stool
Nigeria, Nupe
Renate Albertsen-Morten, Germany Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 23 November 2002, lot 254
sold EUR 350
Lot 406 : Expressive helmet mask
Nigeria, Tiv/Igala
not available anymore
Lot 407 : Standing figure
Nigeria, Urhobo/Isoko
acquired in Nigeria (ca. 1914-20)
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 408 : Figure "iphri"
Nigeria, Urhobo
collected in situ (1972)
not available anymore
Lot 409 : Standing figure
Nigeria, Vere/Montol
not available anymore
Lot 410 : Kneeling female figure "olúmèye" with bowl in shape of a bird
Nigeria, Yoruba, Ekiti
Loudmer, Paris, Arts Primitifs, 27/28 June 1991, lot 127 Michel Gaud, Saint Tropez, France Luc Berthier, Paris, France Sotheby's, Paris, 15 June 2004, lot 145
not available anymore
Lot 411 : Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo, Illorin
Kathryn J. Rex, Venice, USA (collected in situ, in the 1960's)
sold EUR 650
Lot 412 : Female twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo, Oshogbo
Kathryn J. Rex, Venice, USA (collected in situ, 1960's)
sold EUR 800
Lot 413 : Female twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo, Shaki
Inge Hett, Berlin, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 414 : Male/female pair of figures
Nigeria, Yoruba/Anago
Ryszard Bojarski, Warsaw, Poland
not available anymore
Lot 416 : Altar figure
Nigeria, Yoruba
Emil Maetzel, Hamburg, Germany
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 417 : Shrine figure "eshu"
Nigeria, Yoruba
not available anymore
Lot 418 : Dance staffs "eshu"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Rolf Kunitsch, Münster, Germany Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 19 April 1997, lot 285 German Private Collection, Munich
sold EUR 360
Lot 419 : Dance wand "oshe shango"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Ketterer, Munich, 3 November 1981, lot 121
not available anymore
Lot 420 : Dance wand "oshe shango"
Nigeria, Yoruba
not available anymore
Lot 421 : Mask "gelede"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Heinz Reschke, Frankfurt, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 422 : Helmet mask "gelede"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Austrian Collection, Vienna Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 25 February 2006, lot 181
not available anymore
Lot 423 : Mask "gelede"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Helmut Gernsheim, Castagnola, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 424 : Mask "gelede"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Arcade Gallery, London, Great Britain
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 425 : Body mask "aboyun"
Nigeria, Yoruba
not available anymore
Lot 427 : Ceremonial adze "aringo jagun"
Nigeria, Yoruba
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 428 : Stool
Cameroon Grassfields
sold EUR 360
Lot 429 : Pipe head
Cameroon Grassfields
Southern German Collection
sold EUR 260
Lot 430 : Zoomorphic mask with ram horns
Cameroon Grassfields, Babanki/Bamenda
Southern German Collection
sold EUR 350
Lot 431 : Helmet mask, around 1900
Cameroon Grassfields, Babanki
Officer Adolf Diehl, Germany; Diehl was a fieldcollector and General Director of Plantations in Cameroon & representative of the Gesellschaft Nordwest Kamerun. Collected hundreds of objects on commission for the Leipzig Ethnographic Museum and the Linden-Museum Stuttgart, Germany Linden-Museum Stuttgart, Germany Ernst Heinrich, Stuttgart/Bad Cannstatt, Germany Southern German Collection
sold EUR 2,200
Lot 432 : Zoomorphic dance crest
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
not available anymore
Lot 433 : Mask
Cameroon, Bangwa
Dutch Private Collection
sold EUR 2,200