May 27, 2017

86th Tribal Art Auction

Volume I: The collection Walter Schmidt – classic tribal art in post-war Germany (special catalogue). Volume II: Fine old tribal art from Africa, Asia, Oceania and North America. The Berlin collection from the architect and artist Ludwig Leicher (1895-1963). Objects from the Africa collection of the artist Bernhard Jäger.

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Highlights

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Lot 1: Standing female figure "kambei"
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Lot 3: Antelope dance crest "sogi-ni-kun"
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Lot 9: Kneeling figure with snake
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Lot 10: Head sculpture "baathil"
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Lot 16: Standing male figure "asie usu" or " blolo bian"
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Lot 23: Anthropomorphic face mask "gu"
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Lot 29: Top of a figural carved staff "tefalapica" or "tefalipitya"
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Lot 31: Mask "kpélié"
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Lot 32: Anthropomorphic "tu bodu" mask from the "lo" group
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Lot 38: Standing ancestor figure
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Lot 40: Janus-faced dance wand "oshe shango"
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Lot 41: Beautiful old dance wand "oshe shango"
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Lot 53: Standing male figure
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Lot 54: Reliquary figure "mbulu" or "mwete"
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Lot 65: Small power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 74: Aged and extremely fine work of a sitting "Avalokiteshvara"
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Lot 86: Standing male figure "moai tangata"
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Lot 131: Standing female figure "kambei" or "lomba"
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Lot 134: Dance crest
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Lot 148: Standing female figure
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Lot 153: Mask
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Lot 167: Dance crest
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Lot 168: Mask with horns
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Lot 175: Standing female figure "d'mba"
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Lot 181: Standing hermaphrodite
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Lot 190: Mask
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Lot 193: Kneeling figure with lip plug
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Lot 194: Kneeling female figure
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Lot 229: Monkey mask "gban"
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Lot 230: Anthropomorphic bowl-bearing monkey figure "amwin" or "amwin ba"
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Lot 233: Seated male figure with lance
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Lot 243: Receptacle with anthropomorphic lid "kwle"
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Lot 244: Anthropomorphic mask "zakpai"
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Lot 250: Mask "gu" with coiffure from amulet pouches, before 1920
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Lot 258: Mask
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Lot 259: Rare mask
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Lot 275: Beautiful face mask, around 1910/20
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Lot 300: Rare headcrest "ogbom"
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Lot 323: Anthropomorphic dance crest, before 1905
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Lot 328: Ancestor figure
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Lot 360: Mask "ngoin", before 1914
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Lot 367: Ancestor figure "éyéma-o-byéri", Ngoumba Style
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Lot 370: Standing male ancestor figure "tadep"
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Lot 414: Seated female figure "wayinda"
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Lot 427: Caryatid stool "kihona", before 1909
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Lot 444: Female commemorative figure "efomba"
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Lot 458: Mask
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Lot 459: Power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 460: Male power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 464: Rare shield, before 1900

86th Tribal Art Auction

Lot 303 : Hunter's decoy headdress "burtu"
Nigeria, Hausa
Catherine Sargos, Nancy, France
Sold EUR 600
Lot 304 : Figural stele
Nigeria, Ibibio
German Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 305 : Two dolls
Nigeria, Ibibio
Manfred Sackmann, Berlin, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 306 : Maske with hinged jaw "mfon ekpo"
Nigeria, Ibibio
Wolfgang Nerlich, Munich, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 307 : Mask with hinged jaw "idiok ekpo"
Nigeria, Ibibio
Wolfgang Klein, Vienna, Austria
Sold EUR 400
Lot 308 : Ornamental comb, around 1900
Nigeria, Benin
Sold EUR 500
Lot 309 : Mask
Nigeria, Igbo-Afikpo
Nicholas Poolos, Chicago, USA (1960’s)
Not available anymore
Lot 310 : Old mask with horns
Nigeria, Idoma / Igala
German Private Collection
Sold EUR 1,800
Lot 311 : Mask
Nigeria, Idoma
collected in situ (ca. 1978) · German Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 312 : Female dance crest
Nigeria, Idoma
Catherine Sargos, Nancy, France
Not available anymore
Lot 313 : Mask "okoroshi oma", around 1900
Nigeria, Igbo
Magnus Östlund (1879 - ?), Kristianstad, Sweden · Östlund was a sailor throughout his life. He spent a lot of time in Western Africa, particularly in Nigeria, where he collected the present mask, which remained family property since that time.
Sold EUR 1,600
Lot 314 : Dance crest
Nigeria, Igbo, Ohuhu-Ngwa
Jean-Paul Agogué, Champigny-sur-Marne, France
Sold EUR 3,000
Lot 315 : Mask "lughulu"
Nigeria, Igbo
German Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 316 : Face mask
Nigeria, Igbo
Lore Kegel, Hamburg, Germany, collected in situ(1956)
Not available anymore
Lot 317 : Mask with hat
Nigeria, Igbo/Idoma
Eric Robertson, New York, USA · Bruce Frank, New York, USA
Sold EUR 4,000
Lot 318 : Figural post
Nigeria, Igbo/Izzi
René & Maud Garcia, Paris, France · Catherine Sargos, Nancy, France
Sold EUR 800
Lot 319 : Seated male figure
Nigeria, Igbo
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA (Inventory No. 75.109) · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 18 October 2014, lot 306
Sold EUR 1,100
Lot 320 : Standing shrine figure "alusi"
Nigeria, Igbo
Sold EUR 1,200
Lot 321 : Door wing "mgbo ezi"
Nigeria, Igbo
Alain Dufour, Saint Maur, France (collected in the 1960’s) · Lucien van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Not available anymore
Lot 322 : Door wing "mgbo ezi"
Nigeria, Igbo
Alain Dufour, Saint Maur, France (collected in the 1960’s) · Lucien van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Sold EUR 2,300
Lot 323 : Anthropomorphic dance crest, before 1905
Nigeria, Keaka (Bangwa)
Richard Alexander Edwin Hermann von Knobloch (1868-1924), Nordheim/Nordhausen, Germany · Graf Karl Heinrich von Linden (1838-1910), Stuttgart, Germany · Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany, Inventory No. 43112 · Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany (1961) · Peter & Veena Schnell, Zurich, Switzerland · Sotheby’s, Paris, 3 December 2004, lot 107
Sold EUR 10,000
Lot 324 : Mallet
Nigeria, Koro
Lempertz, Brussels, 11 June 2011, lot 84
Not available anymore
Lot 325 : Staff
Nigeria, Mumuye
Alain Javelaud, Fontenay-Sous-Bois, France
Not available anymore
Lot 326 : Standing ancestor figure
Nigeria, Mumuye
Dutch Collection
Sold EUR 1,000
Lot 327 : Ancestor figure
Nigeria, Mumuye
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1972-1979)
Sold EUR 1,800
Lot 328 : Ancestor figure
Nigeria, Mumuye
James Willis, San Francisco, USA · Gallerie Flak, Paris, France · French Private Collection
Sold EUR 3,600
Lot 329 : Female mask "wife of va"
Nigeria, Mumuye
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1972-1979)
Sold EUR 1,200
Lot 330 : Mask with hinged jaw "elu"
Nigeria, Ogoni
Ketterer, Munich, 6 December 1986, lot 310 · Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, Munich, Germany · Rainer Linnhoff, Pullach, Germany
Sold EUR 700
Lot 331 : Rare helmet mask
Nigeria, Tiv
Yves & Ewa Develon, Paris, France · Yves Créhalet, Paris, France · Rive Gauche, Paris, 18 November 2013, lot 66
Not available anymore
Lot 332 : Sitting female figure
Nigeria, Urhobo
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1972-1979)
Not available anymore
Lot 333 : Standing female miniature figure
Nigeria, Wurkun
Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Sold EUR 600
Lot 334 : Ceremonial sword
Nigeria, Yoruba
Frederick & Claire Mebel, New York City, USA · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 15 March 2015, lot 332
Sold EUR 1,200
Lot 335 : Diviner's bag "apo ifa"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Jean-Pierre Laprugne, Paris, France
Not available anymore
Lot 336 : Dance wand "oshe shango"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Emil Maetzel, Hamburg, Germany
Sold EUR 450
Lot 337 : Post in the shape of a Maternity figure
Nigeria, Yoruba
Neumeister, Munich, 14 May 2009, lot 137
Sold EUR 900
Lot 338 : Female twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo, Ede
Eli Goldmann, Vienna, Austria (collected in situ in the 1950s/60s) · Winfried Rathke, Geisenheim, Germany (1967)
Not available anymore
Lot 339 : Couple of twin figures "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Igbomina, Ajasse
Eli Goldmann, Vienna, Austria (collected in situ in the 1950s/60s) · Winfried Rathke, Geisenheim, Germany (1967)
Sold EUR 1,200
Lot 340 : Couple of twin figures "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo, Ifon
Eli Goldmann, Vienna, Austria (collected in situ in the 1950s/60s) · Winfried Rathke, Geisenheim, Germany (1967)
Sold EUR 800
Lot 341 : Couple of twin figures "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Egba, Abeokuta
Eli Goldmann, Vienna, Austria (collected in situ in the 1950s/60s) · Winfried Rathke, Geisenheim, Germany (1967)
Sold EUR 900
Lot 342 : Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Egbe, Yagba
Eli Goldmann, Vienna, Austria (collected in situ in the 1950s/60s) · Winfried Rathke, Geisenheim, Germany (1967)
Sold EUR 2,400
Lot 343 : Female twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Igbomina, Offa
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1972-1979)
Sold EUR 700
Lot 344 : Female twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Eli Goldmann, Vienna, Austria (collected in situ in the 1950s/60s) · Winfried Rathke, Geisenheim, Germany (1967)
Not available anymore
Lot 345 : Couple of female twin figures "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo, Oshogbo
Eli Goldmann, Vienna, Austria (collected in situ in the 1950s/60s) · Winfried Rathke, Geisenheim, Germany (1967)
Sold EUR 500
Lot 346 : Female twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Egbado
Eli Goldmann, Vienna, Austria (collected in situ in the 1950s/60s) · Winfried Rathke, Geisenheim, Germany (1967)
Not available anymore
Lot 347 : Male mask "kam"
Cameroon Grassfields, Babanki
Heinz Geisler, Heidelberg, Germany
Sold EUR 900
Lot 348 : Mask ("mabu") "mabwo"
Cameroon Grassfields, Bafum (Fungom region) or Wum
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1972-1979)
Not available anymore
Lot 349 : Quadruped
Cameroon Grassfields, Bafum
Hélène & Philippe Leloup, Paris, France (1980’s) · Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, Sweden (member of the Cobra-Group)
Not available anymore
Lot 350 : Whistle
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamenda
John & Nicole Dintenfass, New York, USA
Sold EUR 950
Lot 351 : Standing figure, before 1914
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamenda/Tikar
Klinkmöller, Berlin, Germany (1930’s)
Not available anymore
Lot 352 : Buffalo mask
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Stéphane Mangin, Galerie Kanaga, Paris · Emmanuel Pierrat, Paris, France
Not available anymore