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
1/12
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
1/6
Lot 416: Standing female figure
1/4
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 204 : Anthropomorphic mask "zakpai"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Luc Berthier, Paris, France
Not available anymore
Lot 205 : Anthropo-/zoomorphic mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Not available anymore
Lot 207 : Miniature mask "ma go"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland (1968)
Sold EUR 280
Lot 208 : Mask "kyäsä"
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Pierre Robin, Paris, France (1997)
Sold EUR 550
Lot 210 : Zoomorphic mask "zamble"
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
French Private Collection
Sold EUR 1,600
Lot 211 : Large antelope mask of the mask ensemble "dye"
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Pierre Robin, Paris, France (1998)
Sold EUR 800
Lot 212 : Mask "gu"
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
René & Maud Garcia, Paris, France · Yves Créhalet, Paris, France
Sold EUR 2,500
Lot 213 : Heddle pulley "kono" with anthropomorphic head
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Ladislas Segy, New York, USA
Sold EUR 400
Lot 214 : Heddle pulley with buffalo head
Côte d'Ivoire, Jimini
Manfred Pütz, Cologne, Germany
Sold EUR 525
Lot 215 : Mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Kran
Sold EUR 500
Lot 216 : Standing figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Kulango
Pierre & Claude Vérité, Paris, France
Not available anymore
Lot 217 : Big board-shaped female mask "bedu"
Côte d'Ivoire, Nafana
French Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 218 : Mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Ngere
Thomas Schulze, Berlin, Germany · Manfred Sackmann, Berlin, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 219 : Figurally carved container
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Karl-Heinz Krieg, Neuenkirchen, Germany · Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach near Stuttgart, Germany · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 30 November 2013, lot 84
Sold EUR 360
Lot 220 : Bird finial "sejen" of a cult staff
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Helga Redlich, Gelsenkirchen, Germany · Lempertz, Cologne, 26 April 2003, lot 63
Sold EUR 1,000
Lot 221 : Small standing female figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany · Friedrich Spengelin, Hannover/Hamburg, Germany
Sold EUR 300
Lot 222 : Standing male figure "tugubele"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Jonathan Kirkman, London, England · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 24 February 2007, lot 327 · Hans Dietrich Rielau, Hösbach, Germany
Sold EUR 700
Lot 223 : Standing female figure "tugubele"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Hermann Sommerhage, Duisburg, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 224 : Small female figure "tugubele"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Maurice Ratton, Paris, France
Sold EUR 1,800
Lot 225 : Big standing female figure, Coulibaly workshop
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Diaou Mamadou, Paris, France (1964) · Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
Sold EUR 3,200
Lot 226 : Top of staff "tefalipitya"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Not available anymore
Lot 227 : Mask "kpélié"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Suzanne Fraisse, Papua New Guinea/France (collected before 1960) · Bruno Frey, Arnay le Duc, France
Sold EUR 950
Lot 228 : Mask "kpélié"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Kelifa Keita, Paris, France (early 1960s) · Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
Not available anymore
Lot 229 : Mask "kpélié"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Pierre Vérité, Paris, France (1941) · Lore & Georg Kegel, Hamburg, Germany
Sold EUR 4,500
Lot 230 : Ceremonial headdress "kwonro"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, Sweden
Not available anymore
Lot 231 : Anthropomorphic mask with horns
Côte d'Ivoire, Wobé/ Ngere
Not available anymore
Lot 232 : Standing female figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Wé - Wobé
Ralph C. Altman (1908-1967), Los Angeles, USA
Not available anymore
Lot 233 : Mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Wé
French Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 234 : Female singer mask "nineagla"
Côte d'Ivoire, Wé - Guéré / Wobé
Allan Stone (1932-2006), New York, USA
Sold EUR 1,600
Lot 236 : Speaker's staff "okyeame poma"
Ghana, Akan
Eric Robertson, New York, USA
Sold EUR 1,700
Lot 237 : Memorial head
Ghana, Akan-Twi, Adanse
French Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 238 : Geometrical gold weight
Ghana, Akan
Ladislas Segy, New York, USA
Not available anymore
Lot 239 : Four goldweights: Birds
Ghana, Akan
Not available anymore
Lot 240 : Seven goldweights
Ghana, Akan
Sold EUR 370
Lot 241 : Fertility doll "akua ba"
Ghana, Ashanti
Sold EUR 400
Lot 242 : Standing colon figure
Ghana, Ewe
Arno Henseler, Munich, Germany (1991)
Not available anymore
Lot 244 : Male/female pair of figures "aklama"
Togo, Ada
French Private Collection
Sold EUR 1,200
Lot 245 : Standing couple
Togo, Losso
Jo de Buck, Brussels, Belgium · Bruce Moore, California · Joshua Dimondstein, Los Angeles, USA
Sold EUR 1,800
Lot 246 : Standing male figure
Togo, Tchamba
French Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 247 : Large food bowl
Papua New Guinea - Sepik
Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, Germany
Sold EUR 530
Lot 248 : Fertility doll "akua ba"
Ghana, Ashanti
Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, Germany
Sold EUR 250
Lot 249 : "Sande" society helmet mask "ndoli jowel"
Sierra Leone, Mende
Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, Germany
Price
EUR 400

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 250 : Kneeling female figure with bowl "olumeye"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Abeokuta, Oniyide Adugbologe
Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, Germany
Price
EUR 450

plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 251 : Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, Germany
Sold EUR 600
Lot 252 : Head of a Queen Mother "uhunmwun eloo", 19th century
Nigeria, Benin Kingdom
Rudolf Mosse (1843-1920), Berlin, Germany · Hans Lachmann-Mosse, Berlin, Germany / Oakland, USA · Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 29 May 1934, Kat.Nr.178 · H. Benninghaus, Oberhausen, Germany · Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 3 - 7 May 1966, lot 2248 · Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, Germany · Family Collection Bassenge, Berlin, Germany
Sold EUR 38,000
Lot 253 : Zoomorphic slit drum
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, Germany
Sold EUR 850
Lot 254 : Buffalo mask
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Gerd Rosen, Berlin, Germany
Sold EUR 1,200
Lot 255 : Pipe bowl
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, Germany
Sold EUR 1,000
Lot 256 : Anthropo/zoomorphic pipe bowl
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke
Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, Germany
Sold EUR 350
Lot 257 : Standing figure
Cameroon, Tikar/Mbum
Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, Germany
Sold EUR 650