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
1/2
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"
1/7
Lot 476: Standing male power figure "biteki"
1/7
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