March 10, 2018

88th Tribal Art Auction

Non-European art from international private collections: Classic tribal art from the Berlin Collection Gerda Bassenge (1915-1995). Native American Art from the private collection Christian Pysik, Aachen. Fine old tribal art from Africa, Asia, Oceania and North America.

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Highlights

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Lot 52: Model war canoe "waka taua"
1/2
Lot 63: Boy's vest
1/4
Lot 86: Baby carrier
1/4
Lot 112: Tomahawk, before 1870
1/7
Lot 119: "Raincloud kachina", around 1930
1/5
Lot 124: Tomb stela with ancestor head
1/5
Lot 130: Rare mask
1/7
Lot 141: Female figure with child "jo mooni" or "gwan dusu"
1/5
Lot 149: Antelope dance crest "tjiwara"
1/8
Lot 154: Rare mask
1/7
Lot 169: Anthropozoomorphic mask "hombo" or "kobié" (rooster)
1/7
Lot 170: Standing male figure, Sikire Kambire
1/10
Lot 182: Enthroned male figure from the "Treasure of the Saléfoué", before 1910
1/3
Lot 217: Big board-shaped female mask "bedu"
1/5
Lot 229: Mask "kpélié"
1/5
Lot 237: Memorial head
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Lot 252: Head of a Queen Mother "uhunmwun eloo", 19th century
1/8
Lot 267: Anthropomorphic dance crest
1/6
Lot 280: Standing male figure
1/8
Lot 291: Elephant spirit mask "ogbodo enyi"
1/4
Lot 299: Figural cup "gbene"
1/6
Lot 300: Rare standing figure
1/9
Lot 317: Large male shrine figure
1/6
Lot 363: Anthropomorphic mask "ngil"
1/4
Lot 366: Reliquary figure "mbulu" or "mwete"
1/7
Lot 369: Figural dignitary staff
1/5
Lot 375: Anthropo-zoomorphic mask
1/7
Lot 390: Young maiden mask "mwana pwo"
1/5
Lot 391: Mask "chikunza", before 1880
1/6
Lot 405: Anthropomorphic cup
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Lot 416: Standing female figure
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Lot 430: Staff of office "kibango", end of 19th century
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Lot 436: Male maskette of the "bwadi bwa kifwebe" society
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Lot 455: Caryatid stool

88th Tribal Art Auction

Lot 102 : Pair of folded bags "parflèche"
North America, Blackfeet
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 1,300
Lot 103 : Folded bag "parflèche"
North America, Plateau
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 450
Lot 104 : Folded bag "parflèche"
North America, Plains
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 400
Lot 105 : Folded bag "parflèche"
North America, Plains
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 300
Lot 106 : Folded bag "parflèche"
North America, Plains
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 550
Lot 107 : Folded bag "parflèche"
North America, Plains (Crow?)
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 500
Lot 108 : Folded bag "parflèche"
North America, Plains
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 600
Lot 109 : Ceremonial pipe
North America, Plains
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 110 : Ceremonial pipe
North America, Plains
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 300
Lot 111 : Pipe head
North America, Plains
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 300
Lot 112 : Tomahawk, before 1870
North America, Plains
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 1,900
Lot 113 : Zoomorphic bowl
North America, Western Great Lakes
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 1,300
Lot 114 : Coloured lithography "Encampment of the Piekann Indians"
Beyer & Hürlimann
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 1,100
Lot 115 : Coloured lithography "Tipi of an Assiniboin Chief"
Salathé & Hürlimann
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 500
Lot 116 : Old photography
Photography
Christian Pysik, Aachen, Germany
sold EUR 200
Lot 117 : Four fish hooks, 19th century
North America, Northwest Coast Culture - Haida
not available anymore
Lot 118 : Fish hook for halibut
North America, Northwest Coast Culture - Tlingit
American Collection (1990)
not available anymore
Lot 119 : "Raincloud kachina", around 1930
North America, Hopi
sold EUR 4,500
Lot 120 : Pipe, around 1870-1880
North America, Sioux
Piet Porter, Colorado, USA
not available anymore
Lot 121 : Warrior kachina "salimopia"
North America, New Mexico, Zuni
not available anymore
Lot 122 : Two rare medicine dolls "uchu"
Panama, San Blas Islands, Kuna people
sold EUR 250
Lot 123 : Stool
Brazil, Kayabí
not available anymore
Lot 124 : Tomb stela with ancestor head
Sudan, Bongo
presumably Pascal Ginailhac, France/Belgium
sold EUR 6,200
Lot 125 : Neckrest
Sudan, Dinka
Alain Dufour, Saint Maur, France
sold EUR 950
Lot 126 : Bracelet
West Africa
not available anymore
Lot 127 : Mask "geh naw"
Liberia, Bassa
sold EUR 1,700
Lot 128 : Janus-shaped dance crest
Liberia, Grebo
Yves Créhalet, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 129 : Anthropo-/zoomorphic mask
Liberia, Kran/ Wè - Ngere
Katherine Coryton Reswick, USA Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 8 March 1969, lot 73 Richard Bellak, New York, USA (Mr Bellak was a Pre-Columbian & Tribal Arts dealer from the 1960s to late 1990s)
sold EUR 1,650
Lot 130 : Rare mask
Liberia, Kru/Grebo
Harrie Heinemans, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Gerhard de Vos, Dormagen, Germany Hans Reinmöller, Ratingen, Germany (1995)
sold EUR 4,400
Lot 131 : Mask
Liberia, Kru
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 132 : Janus-faced staff
Liberia, Loma
Hans Hess, Basel, Switzerland Toni Dähler, Basel, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 133 : Half figure
Sierra Leone, Kissi
German Private Collection, Hannover
not available anymore
Lot 134 : Standing pair of figures
Sierra Leone, Loko
Frederick Harry Gordon Hanley, Bournemouth, England Marc Assayag, Montreal, Canada
not available anymore
Lot 135 : Standing male figure "lomba" or "kambei"
Sierra Leone, Mende
Reginald Groux, Paris, France (1998)
not available anymore
Lot 136 : Horn
Sierra Leone, Mende
Inge Hett, Berlin, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 137 : Anthropomorphic mask
Guinea/Liberia, Dan-Guerze (Kpelle)
Robert Duperrier, Paris, France (1978) Vittorio Carini, Bergamo, Italy Italian Collection, Roma
sold EUR 5,000
Lot 138 : Zoomorphic mask
Guinea, Toma
Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, Sweden Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 12 May 2007, lot 121
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 139 : Miniature mask with horns
Guinea, Toma
Gerard Sand, Brussels, Belgium Wolf-Bernard Müller, Krefeld, Germany
sold EUR 400
Lot 140 : Helmet mask "essenie" oder "dugn'be"
Guinea-Bissau, Bidjogo
sold EUR 1,600
Lot 141 : Female figure with child "jo mooni" or "gwan dusu"
Mali, Bamana
Bertil Berg, Gothenburg, Sweden Michel Gaud, Saint Tropez, France
not available anymore
Lot 142 : Twin figure "flanitokele"
Mali, Bamana
French Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 143 : Female figure "jo nyeleni"
Mali, Bamana
Robert Duperrier, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 144 : Standing female figure "jo nyeleni"
Mali, Bamana
not available anymore
Lot 145 : Rare male/female couple
Mali, Bamana
collected in situ, Bamako (1984)
not available anymore
Lot 146 : Standing female figure
Mali, Bamana
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium Wolf-Bernard Müller, Krefeld, Germany
sold EUR 400
Lot 147 : Antelope dance crest "tjiwara"
Mali, Bamana
Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany Friedrich Spengelin, Hannover/Hamburg, Germany
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 148 : Antelope dance crest "sogo-ni-kun"
Mali, Bamana
American Private Collection, New York
not available anymore
Lot 149 : Antelope dance crest "tjiwara"
Mali, Bamana
Pierre & Claude Vérité, Paris, France Stéphane Mangin, Galerie Kanaga, Paris (2015)
not available anymore
Lot 150 : Hyaena mask "suruku" of the "korè" society
Mali, Bamana
Sebastian Fernandez, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 151 : Mask "ntomo"
Mali, Bamana
German Private Collection, Munich
sold EUR 600