November 11, 2017

87th Tribal Art Auction

Non-European art from international private collections: Gabun masks and memorabilia from the Albert Schweitzer collection coming from the Emmy Martin estate. The second part of the Heinz Kolerski collection (1936-2012). Small figures and fetishes from the african collection of the german artist Günther Filla (1952-2015). Heddle pulleys coming from the collection Mona Etienne (ethnologist in the 1960s/70s). Fine old tribal art from Africa, Asia, Oceania and North America.

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Highlights

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Lot 7: Male ancestor figure "adu zatua", around 1900
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Lot 18: Shield
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Lot 25: Suspension hook
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Lot 40: Club "patu"
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Lot 46: Mask
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Lot 47: Small head sculpture, ~ 200 - 800 AD
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Lot 48: Winged object, ~ 200 - 500 AD
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Lot 50: Idol, 18th century or earlier
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Lot 52: Gut scraper, ~ 500 - 900 AD
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Lot 105: Standing figure "mvunzi"
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Lot 127: Plank mask "nwantantay"
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Lot 139: Beautiful figure "blolo bla"
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Lot 148: Figurally carved staff
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Lot 154: Speaker's staff "okyeame poma"
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Lot 205: Standing figure
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Lot 212: Mask "ntomo"
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Lot 220: Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head
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Lot 226: Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic buffalo head
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Lot 232: Rare elephant mask "sama", before 1914
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Lot 236: Female maks "kpan"
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Lot 239: Standing female figure "blolo bla"
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Lot 245: Maternité of the "Agba workshop", around 1920
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Lot 246: Anthropomorphic bowl-bearing monkey figure "amuin" or "amuin ba"
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Lot 253: Anthropomorphic face mask "tankagle"
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Lot 258: Beautiful female mask "gu", before 1910
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Lot 264: Fragment of a male figure
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Lot 285: Impressive "bochio kpodohonme"
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Lot 336: Rare form of a beaded dance crest
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Lot 342: Portrait bust of Albert Schweitzer, after 1951
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Lot 345: Female face mask "okuyi"
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Lot 346: Anthropomorphic face mask "okuyi"
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Lot 349: Anthropomorphic face mask
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Lot 369: Power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 370: Power figure "nkisi nduda"
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Lot 383: Fly whisk handle ?
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Lot 400: Cup in shape of a standing male figure
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Lot 415: Anthropomorphic figure "iginga"
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Lot 416: Janus figure "katanda"
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Lot 432: Staff of office "kibango"
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Lot 433: Mask
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Lot 460: Janus power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 461: Small power half figure "nkisi"
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Lot 476: Standing male power figure "biteki"
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Lot 485: Maternité "phemba"

87th Tribal Art Auction

Lot 204 : Standing figure
Mali, Dogon
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 205 : Standing figure
Mali, Dogon
American Private Collection, New York Alexandre Claes, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 206 : Seated female figure "koro na"
Mali, Dogon, Village Kani Kambole
German Collection
sold EUR 800
Lot 207 : Anthropomorphic mask "satimbe"
Mali, Dogon
Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, Sweden (member of the Cobra-Group)
sold EUR 2,300
Lot 208 : Tree ladder
Mali, Dogon
German Private Collection
sold EUR 2,800
Lot 209 : Door lock
Mali, Dogon
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,400
Lot 210 : Door lock
Mali, Dogon
Roy Stacy, Washington D.C., USA
not available anymore
Lot 211 : Seated male figure
Mali, Malinke
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany Paul Kummert, Frankfurt, Germany (1980s)
sold EUR 1,900
Lot 212 : Mask "ntomo"
Mali, Malinke
Leonard Kahan, Montclair, USA
not available anymore
Lot 213 : Zoomorphic mask "ntomo"
Mali, Marka / Malinke
Henry Easterwood, Tennessee, USA Mark Eglinton, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 214 : Face mask of the "korè" society
Mali, Marka, San region
German Private Collection
sold EUR 1,600
Lot 216 : Buffalo mask
Burkina Faso, Bwa
German Private Collection
sold EUR 600
Lot 217 : Standinfg female figure "bateba phuwe"
Burkina Faso, Lobi
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 220 : Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Mona Etienne, New York, USA, collected in situ (1960s/70s)
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 221 : Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Mona Etienne, New York, USA, collected in situ (1960s/70s)
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 222 : Heddle pulley with zoomorphic head (hyaena?)
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Mona Etienne, New York, USA, collected in situ (1960s/70s)
sold EUR 1,050
Lot 224 : Heddle pulley with buffalo head
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule/Yaure
Mona Etienne, New York, USA, collected in situ (1960s/70s)
sold EUR 1,400
Lot 225 : Heddle pulley
Côte d'Ivoire, Yaure/Guro
Mona Etienne, New York, USA, collected in situ (1960s/70s)
sold EUR 1,300
Lot 226 : Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic buffalo head
Côte d'Ivoire, Jimini/Tusia
Mona Etienne, New York, USA, collected in situ (1960s/70s)
sold EUR 2,800
Lot 227 : Rare heddle pulley
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Mona Etienne, New York, USA, collected in situ (1960s/70s)
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 228 : Heddle pulley with kalao bird head
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Mona Etienne, New York, USA, collected in situ (1960s/70s)
sold EUR 500
Lot 229 : Beak mask "gägon"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Mona Etienne, New York, USA, collected in situ (1960s/70s)
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 230 : Mask "kpélié"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Mona Etienne, New York, USA, collected in situ (1960s/70s)
sold EUR 580
Lot 231 : Mask "djela"
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Mona Etienne, New York, USA, collected in situ (1960s/70s)
sold EUR 400
Lot 232 : Rare elephant mask "sama", before 1914
Côte d'Ivoire, Worodugu Region, Malinke
Old British Collection
Price EUR 25,000
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 233 : Female figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Agni
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium (1994) Lempertz, Cologne, 26 April 2003, lot 91 Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 25 February 2006, lot 92 Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany
sold EUR 400
Lot 234 : Zoomorphic helmet mask "bonu amwin"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 235 : Junior male mask "kplekple" of the "goli" group
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
German Private Collection
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 236 : Female maks "kpan"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Josef Mueller, Solothurn, Switzerland Monique & Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller, Geneva, Switzerland Pierre Falpin, Geneva, Switzerland
sold EUR 4,000
Lot 237 : Mask with horns "kpan pre"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
sold EUR 1,300
Lot 238 : Standing male figure "blolo bian"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris, 5 March 2004, lot 154 Jean Zimmermann, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 239 : Standing female figure "blolo bla"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Mon Steyaert, Brussels, Belgium Philipp Konzett, Graz, Austria Helmut Feier, Vienna, Austria
sold EUR 6,000
Lot 240 : Standing male figure "blolo bian"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Matthias L. J. Lemaire, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1969) Christie's London, May 13 1980, lot 183 Private Collection
sold EUR 2,800
Lot 241 : Standing female figure "blolo bla"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Robert Jacobsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
not available anymore
Lot 242 : Standing female figure "blolo bla"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Private Collection Paris, France Olivier Larroque, Nimes, France
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 243 : Pair of figures "asie usu"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
American Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 244 : Pair of figures
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule/Senufo
not available anymore
Lot 245 : Maternité of the "Agba workshop", around 1920
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule, Agba area, Dimbokro
Lauritz Sunde, Copenhagen, Denmark Jan Leth Aagensen (1932-2010), Denmark Danish Private Collection
sold EUR 14,000
Lot 246 : Anthropomorphic bowl-bearing monkey figure "amuin" or "amuin ba"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Galerie Neander, Heidelberg, Germany (1970s)
sold EUR 4,200
Lot 247 : Gong and gong bat "lowre"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
sold EUR 350
Lot 248 : Monkey mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Bété
American Private Collection
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 249 : Male commémorative figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Bété
James M. Silberman, Washington/Alexandria, USA
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 250 : Magical object
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan/Gio/Mano
Old Colonial Collection, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 251 : Mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
collected in situ (1950)
not available anymore
Lot 252 : Mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan/Yacouba
not available anymore
Lot 253 : Anthropomorphic face mask "tankagle"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 254 : Mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
not available anymore
Lot 255 : Mask "zakpai"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Philipp Konzett, Graz, Austria Helmut Feier, Vienna, Austria
not available anymore
Lot 256 : Anthropomorphic face mask "tankagle"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Loudmer, Paris, 30 June 1994, lot 438 German Collection, Würzburg
sold EUR 900
Lot 257 : Mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Diomande/Dan
not available anymore