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 258 : Beautiful female mask "gu", before 1910
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Tajan, Paris, 8 November 1996, lot 163 Roy Stacy, Washington D.C., USA
sold EUR 15,000
Lot 259 : Mask "gu"
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, Munich, Germany
sold EUR 2,200
Lot 260 : Zoomorphic mask "zamble"
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 261 : Zoomorphic mask "bänä"
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
sold EUR 400
Lot 262 : Rare anthropo-/zoomorphic mask "do"
Côte d'Ivoire, Jimini
D. M. Klinger, Nuremberg, 1 December 1979, lot 70 Günther Kellner, Herzogenaurach, Germany
sold EUR 1,600
Lot 263 : Mask with hinged jaw
Côte d'Ivoire, Wè - Ngere
Dave DeRoche, San Francisco, USA
not available anymore
Lot 264 : Fragment of a male figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Old French Collection
not available anymore
Lot 265 : Figural sculpture
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Jean Zimmermann, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 266 : Standing female figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Yves Créhalet, Paris, France
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 267 : Standing female figure "tugubele"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 268 : Small female figure "tugubele"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Tao Kerefoff, Paris, France American Collection, New York
not available anymore
Lot 269 : Standing female figure "tugubele"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Helmut Zake, Heidelberg, Germany Ketterer, Munich, 30 April 1988, lot 216
not available anymore
Lot 270 : Dance horse "syon"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Galerie Sonnenfels, Vienna, Austria
sold EUR 800
Lot 271 : Dance crest "dagu" for the "niyuo" dance
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Geoffrey Holder, New York, USA Glen Rhodes & Harry Nadler, Arlington, USA
sold EUR 4,200
Lot 272 : Mask with hinged jaw
Côte d'Ivoire, Wé - Dan - Kran Complex
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 27 June 2015, lot 296
not available anymore
Lot 273 : Face mask "tu bodu" of the "je" group
Côte d'Ivoire, Yaure
Old American Collection
sold EUR 4,500
Lot 274 : Memorial head
Ghana, Akan, Hemang-Twifo style
Roy Stacy, Washington D.C., USA
not available anymore
Lot 275 : Pectoral "akrafokonmu"
Ghana, Akan
Karl-Heinz Krieg, Neuenkirchen, Germany German Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 276 : Chief's ring
Ghana, Akan
Karl-Heinz Krieg, Neuenkirchen, Germany German Private Collection
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 277 : Chiefs ring "mpetea"
Ghana, Ashanti
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 278 : Fertility doll "akua ba"
Ghana, Ashanti
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 279 : Fertility doll "akua ba"
Ghana, Ashanti
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 280 : Fly whisk
Ghana, Ashanti
Roy Stacy, Washington D.C., USA
not available anymore
Lot 281 : Male twin figure "venaivi"
Togo, Ewe
Henricus Simonis, Düsseldorf, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 282 : Standing female figure
Togo, Lamba
not available anymore
Lot 284 : Ceremonial staff "recade"
Benin, Fon
Lucas Ratton, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 285 : Impressive "bochio kpodohonme"
Benin, Fon
Ann de Pauw and Luc Huysveld, Antwerp, Belgium Henricus Simonis, Düsseldorf, Germany
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 286 : Comb, around 1900/1910
Nigeria, Bini/Edo
Old British Collection
sold EUR 600
Lot 287 : Mask
Nigeria, Bini
Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany Hauswedell, Hamburg, Germany (1977)
sold EUR 700
Lot 288 : Figural fragment
Nigeria, Mbembe/Boki
German Private Collection, collected in situ (1972-1979)
not available anymore
Lot 289 : Headdress
Nigeria, Boki
Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 13 March 2010, lot 171
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 290 : Janus-head head crest
Nigeria, Boki
Philippe Ratton, Paris, France
sold EUR 3,300
Lot 291 : Horned mask with hinged jaw
Nigeria, Ibibio
Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
sold EUR 350
Lot 292 : Mask "oba maoro"
Nigeria, Igbo-Afikpo
Samir Borro, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 1,300
Lot 293 : Dance crest
Nigeria, Idoma
sold EUR 400
Lot 294 : Standing figure "ikenga"
Nigeria, Igbo
sold EUR 550
Lot 296 : Horn
Nigeria, Igbo
Merton Simpson, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 298 : Ritual object "ofo"
Nigeria, Igbo
American Private Collection, New York
not available anymore
Lot 299 : Chalk spoon
Nigeria, Igbo
sold EUR 400
Lot 300 : Standing female figure
Nigeria, Igbo
Loudmer, Paris, 28 June 1990, lot 107 Melot Family Collection, Liège, Belgium
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 301 : Mask "agbogho mmwo" ("maiden spirit")
Nigeria, Igbo
not available anymore
Lot 302 : Mask "agbogho mmwo" ("maiden spirit")
Nigeria, Igbo
Belgian Private Collection, Liège (ca. 1970) Emile Deletaille, Brussels, Belgium Guy van Rijn, Brussels, Belgium (1987) Dutch Private Collection, Eindhoven
not available anymore
Lot 303 : Mask "mangam"
Nigeria, Kantana (Mama)
Alain Dufour, Saint Maur, France
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 304 : Rare zoomorphic mask "gugwom" (Crocodile?)
Nigeria, Northern Benue, Montol (Goemai)
not available anymore
Lot 305 : Bush cow mask
Nigeria, Mumuye
Price EUR 1,500
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 306 : Standing figure
Nigeria, Mumuye
Jean Zimmermann, New York, USA
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 307 : Standing anthropomorphic figure
Nigeria, Mumuye
Arcade Gallery, London, Great Britain
sold EUR 1,350
Lot 308 : Standing anthropomorphic figure
Nigeria, Mumuye
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 309 : Standing anthropomorphic figure
Nigeria, Mumuye
Alain Javelaud, Fontenay-Sous-Bois, France
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 310 : Sculpture with two anthropomorphic heads
Nigeria, Tiv/Idoma
French Private Collection Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 22 March 2014, lot 472
sold EUR 2,400