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