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

1/5
Lot 7: Male ancestor figure "adu zatua", around 1900
1/4
Lot 18: Shield
1/7
Lot 25: Suspension hook
1/4
Lot 40: Club "patu"
1/5
Lot 46: Mask
1/7
Lot 47: Small head sculpture, ~ 200 - 800 AD
1/5
Lot 48: Winged object, ~ 200 - 500 AD
1/5
Lot 50: Idol, 18th century or earlier
1/4
Lot 52: Gut scraper, ~ 500 - 900 AD
1/6
Lot 105: Standing figure "mvunzi"
1/6
Lot 127: Plank mask "nwantantay"
1/6
Lot 139: Beautiful figure "blolo bla"
1/7
Lot 148: Figurally carved staff
1/5
Lot 154: Speaker's staff "okyeame poma"
1/5
Lot 205: Standing figure
1/6
Lot 212: Mask "ntomo"
1/5
Lot 220: Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head
1/6
Lot 226: Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic buffalo head
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Lot 232: Rare elephant mask "sama", before 1914
1/5
Lot 236: Female maks "kpan"
1/7
Lot 239: Standing female figure "blolo bla"
1/9
Lot 245: Maternité of the "Agba workshop", around 1920
1/7
Lot 246: Anthropomorphic bowl-bearing monkey figure "amuin" or "amuin ba"
1/6
Lot 253: Anthropomorphic face mask "tankagle"
1/7
Lot 258: Beautiful female mask "gu", before 1910
1/6
Lot 264: Fragment of a male figure
1/7
Lot 285: Impressive "bochio kpodohonme"
1/8
Lot 336: Rare form of a beaded dance crest
1/6
Lot 342: Portrait bust of Albert Schweitzer, after 1951
1/7
Lot 345: Female face mask "okuyi"
1/6
Lot 346: Anthropomorphic face mask "okuyi"
1/5
Lot 349: Anthropomorphic face mask
1/6
Lot 369: Power figure "nkisi"
1/7
Lot 370: Power figure "nkisi nduda"
1/4
Lot 383: Fly whisk handle ?
1/6
Lot 400: Cup in shape of a standing male figure
1/5
Lot 415: Anthropomorphic figure "iginga"
1/4
Lot 416: Janus figure "katanda"
1/8
Lot 432: Staff of office "kibango"
1/4
Lot 433: Mask
1/6
Lot 460: Janus power figure "nkisi"
1/5
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 365 : Bag
D. R. Congo, Azande
not available anymore
Lot 366 : Anthropomorphic figure "yanda"
D. R. Congo, Azande
not available anymore
Lot 367 : Shield
D. R. Congo, Azande
sold EUR 900
Lot 368 : Double figure "nkisi"
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
not available anymore
Lot 369 : Power figure "nkisi"
D. R. Congo, Bakongo/Congo Brazzaville/Cabinda Angola
Old Colonial Collection Alain Guisson, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 370 : Power figure "nkisi nduda"
D. R. Congo, Bakongo/Mayombe
sold EUR 6,000
Lot 371 : Mask
D. R. Congo, Bakongo/Chokwe/Pende
Jo de Buck, Brussels, Belgium Freedun Ostowar, Eigeltingen, Germany Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 10 September 2005, lot 304
not available anymore
Lot 372 : Bell "kunda" and small figure
D. R. Congo, Bakongo/Bwende
Joanna Lundin (1875-1935), Swedish Missionary
not available anymore
Lot 373 : Pendant
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
not available anymore
Lot 374 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Banda/Ubangi
Joaquin Pecci, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 375 : Mask
D. R. Congo, Bembe/Goma
not available anymore
Lot 376 : Zoomorphic mask
D. R. Congo, Bembe
not available anymore
Lot 378 : Janus headed power figure "kalunga"
D. R. Congo, Bembe
not available anymore
Lot 379 : Standing figure
D. R. Congo, Bwaka
Jean Zimmermann, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 380 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Bwaka
Jean Zimmermann, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 381 : Rare calabash
D. R. Congo, Bwende
Axel Emil Wennerström (1872-1912), Swedish Missionary
sold EUR 2,200
Lot 382 : Flute
D. R. Congo, Chokwe/Pende
Dave DeRoche, San Francisco, USA
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 383 : Fly whisk handle ?
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
not available anymore
Lot 384 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
Eduardo Uhart, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 385 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
Alain Wilket, Liège, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 386 : Male mask
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
Jean Zimmermann, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 387 : Comb
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
not available anymore
Lot 388 : Small mask
D. R. Congo, Ding
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 389 : Standing male ancestor figure "singiti"
D. R. Congo, Hemba, Region: Kongolo, Nkuvu
Joseph Christiaens, Brussels, Belgium Ketterer, Munich, 3 November 1981, lot 218 Michel Koenig, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 2,700
Lot 390 : Caryatid stool
D. R. Congo, Hemba
Belgian Private Collection Louis Pieter Cornelis van Rijn (Galerie Kephri), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1972) Dutch Private Collection, Blaricum (1972) Galerie Khepri van Rijn, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1980) Dutch Private Collection, Eindhoven
sold EUR 3,500
Lot 391 : Janiform half figure "kabeja"
D. R. Congo, Hemba
Julien A. Quackelbeen, Ghent, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 392 : Female figure
D. R. Congo, Holo
not available anymore
Lot 393 : Squatting figure "mwunzi"
D. R. Congo, Holo
Paul Descamps, Antwerp, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 394 : Framed figure "nzambi"
D. R. Congo, Holo/Suku
Jean Zimmermann, New York, USA
sold EUR 800
Lot 395 : Mask
D. R. Congo, Ituri
sold EUR 800
Lot 396 : Part of tobacco pipe
D. R. Congo, Kanyok
not available anymore
Lot 397 : Trough zither
D. R. Congo, Kanyok
Alain Dufour, Saint Maur, France
not available anymore
Lot 398 : Mask "muluala"
D. R. Congo, Kete
Private Collection, New York, USA Amos Balash, New York, USA Mark Eglinton, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 399 : Mask "bwoom"
D. R. Congo, Kuba
German Private Collection
sold EUR 1,100
Lot 400 : Cup in shape of a standing male figure
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Belgian Colonial Collection
not available anymore
Lot 401 : Seated male figure
D. R. Congo, Kuba
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 402 : Kneeling male figure
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Cistercian monastery Geraardsbergen (Grimminge/Grammont), Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 403 : Maternité
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Cistercian monastery Geraardsbergen (Grimminge/Grammont), Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 404 : Neckrest
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
sold EUR 650
Lot 405 : Amulet
D. R. Congo, Kuba
not available anymore
Lot 406 : Camwood powder bar "tukula"
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
sold EUR 400
Lot 407 : Knife of peace "ikula"
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Patrick Mestdagh, Brussels, Belgium Jacques Billen, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 408 : Zoomorphic sculpture "mugugundu"
D. R. Congo, Lega
not available anymore
Lot 409 : Small head sculpture
D. R. Congo, Lega
not available anymore
Lot 410 : Standing figure
D. R. Congo, Lega
sold EUR 820
Lot 411 : Male figure
D. R. Congo, Lega
not available anymore
Lot 412 : Standing figure
D. R. Congo, Lega
French Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 413 : Standing figure
D. R. Congo, Lega
not available anymore
Lot 414 : Standing figure "iginga"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Félix Pelt, Amsterdam, Netherlands Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 23 September 2006, lot 333
not available anymore
Lot 415 : Anthropomorphic figure "iginga"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore