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 406 : Power half figure
D. R. Congo, Kanyok
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1983-1985)
Sold EUR 400
Lot 407 : Power half figure "munsinju"
D. R. Congo, Kasongo
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1983-1985)
Not available anymore
Lot 408 : Currency
D. R. Congo, Katanga
Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium · Jens Jahn, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 500
Lot 409 : Pipe head
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Not available anymore
Lot 410 : Half figure "kakudji"
D. R. Congo, Kusu/Luba
W. E. Fitzgerald, Chicago, USA (1960’s)
Not available anymore
Lot 411 : Dance club "ebongo" in rare janus-headed form
D. R. Congo, Kuyu
German Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 412 : Figural calabash stopper
D. R. Congo, Kwese
Not available anymore
Lot 413 : Mask "idimu"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Berndt Helleberg, Stockholm, Sweden
Not available anymore
Lot 414 : Seated female figure "wayinda"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Louise Parson, Florida, USA · John J. Klejman, New York, USA (1969) · Michel Boulanger, Liege, Belgium · Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium (2014)
Not available anymore
Lot 415 : Standing figure
D. R. Congo, Lega
Sold EUR 1,800
Lot 416 : Figure of the "bwami" society
D. R. Congo, Lega
André Navez, collected in situ in the 1960’s in Kivu province
Not available anymore
Lot 417 : Frog "kitende"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Sold EUR 3,500
Lot 418 : Hat "mukuba"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Ingo Evers, Bonn, Germany
Sold EUR 450
Lot 419 : Hat
D. R. Congo, Lega
Ingo Evers, Bonn, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 420 : Axe
D. R. Congo, Lele
Peter Pollack, New York, USA (1960’s)
Not available anymore
Lot 421 : Mask
D. R. Congo, Lele
Yves Créhalet, Paris, France
Not available anymore
Lot 422 : Standing male figure in colon style
D. R. Congo, Luba
Not available anymore
Lot 423 : Small power half figure "kakudji"
D. R. Congo, Luba
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1983-1985)
Sold EUR 300
Lot 424 : Small power half figure
D. R. Congo, Luba/Buye
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1983-1985)
Not available anymore
Lot 425 : Power half figure "kakudji"
D. R. Congo, Luba
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1983-1985)
Not available anymore
Lot 426 : Power figure "nkisi"
D. R. Congo, Luba/Songe
Thomas Schulze, Berlin, Germany · Manfred Sackmann, Berlin, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 427 : Caryatid stool "kihona", before 1909
D. R. Congo, Luba
Hauptmann Werner von Grawert, collected in situ (1909) · Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany (Inventory No. “58677”) · Arthur Speyer, Berlin, Germany (1938) · Friedrich Wield, Hamburg, Germany (1940) · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 22 September 2007, lot 515
Sold EUR 10,000
Lot 428 : Caryatid stool "kihona"
D. R. Congo, Luba
Michel Gaud, Saint Tropez, France
Sold EUR 2,200
Lot 429 : Caryatid stool "kihona", before 1920
D. R. Congo, Luba
French Private Collection
Sold EUR 3,940
Lot 430 : Neckrest
D. R. Congo, Luba
von Westernhagen, Breetz, Germany · German Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 431 : Neckrest
D. R. Congo, Luba
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1983-1985)
Sold EUR 600
Lot 432 : House mask "kifwebe"
D. R. Congo, Luba
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium · Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany (1994)
Sold EUR 400
Lot 433 : Round mask "kifwebe", around 1910/20
D. R. Congo, Luba
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium · Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany (1994)
Sold EUR 500
Lot 434 : Small power figure
D. R. Congo, Lulua
Paul Timmermans, Belgium (1970’s) · German Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 435 : Standing figure
D. R. Congo, Lulua
Not available anymore
Lot 436 : Helmet mask
D. R. Congo, Mbala/Kwese
Louis Dansert, Cannes, France
Not available anymore
Lot 437 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Mbala
Not available anymore
Lot 438 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Mbala
Not available anymore
Lot 439 : Couple
D. R. Congo, Metoko
Sold EUR 1,350
Lot 440 : Rare dance mask
D. R. Congo, Mongo, Mbandaka region
Jean-Paul Agogué, Champigny-sur-Marne, France
Sold EUR 1,500
Lot 441 : Profile form
D. R. Congo, Mongo
Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium · Jens Jahn, Munich, Germany
Sold EUR 250
Lot 442 : Execution knife
D. R. Congo, Ngala
Sold EUR 1,200
Lot 443 : Hunting charm
D. R. Congo, Ngbandi
Not available anymore
Lot 444 : Female commemorative figure "efomba"
D. R. Congo, Nkundu/Ngata
Francis van Noten, Belgium
Not available anymore
Lot 445 : Couple
D. R. Congo, Nsapo-Nsapo
Not available anymore
Lot 446 : Mask "mbuya"
D. R. Congo, Pende
French Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 447 : Mask
D. R. Congo, Pende
Pierre Loos, Brussels, Belgium (~1990) · Yves Créhalet, Paris, France
Not available anymore
Lot 448 : Mask
D. R. Congo, Pende
Sold EUR 350
Lot 449 : Mask board
D. R. Congo, Pende
Michel Koenig, Brussels, Belgium · Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany (1995)
Sold EUR 250
Lot 450 : Rare metal "ikoko"
D. R. Congo, Pende
Not available anymore
Lot 451 : Pendant "ikoko"
D. R. Congo, Pende
Hermann Kühn, Munich, Germany · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 19 June 2010, lot 462
Not available anymore
Lot 452 : Amulet mask "ikoko"
D. R. Congo, Pende
Lore Kegel und Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany, collected in situ (1958)
Not available anymore
Lot 453 : Amulet mask "ikoko"
D. R. Congo, Pende
Lore und Georg Kegel, Hamburg, Germany, collected in situ (1956)
Not available anymore
Lot 454 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Pende
Belgian Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 456 : Mortar
D. R. Congo, Pindi
Belgian Private Collection
Sold EUR 550