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"
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Lot 63: Boy's vest
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Lot 86: Baby carrier
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Lot 112: Tomahawk, before 1870
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Lot 119: "Raincloud kachina", around 1930
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Lot 124: Tomb stela with ancestor head
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Lot 130: Rare mask
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Lot 141: Female figure with child "jo mooni" or "gwan dusu"
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Lot 149: Antelope dance crest "tjiwara"
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Lot 154: Rare mask
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Lot 169: Anthropozoomorphic mask "hombo" or "kobié" (rooster)
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Lot 170: Standing male figure, Sikire Kambire
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Lot 182: Enthroned male figure from the "Treasure of the Saléfoué", before 1910
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Lot 217: Big board-shaped female mask "bedu"
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Lot 229: Mask "kpélié"
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Lot 237: Memorial head
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Lot 252: Head of a Queen Mother "uhunmwun eloo", 19th century
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Lot 267: Anthropomorphic dance crest
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Lot 280: Standing male figure
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Lot 291: Elephant spirit mask "ogbodo enyi"
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Lot 299: Figural cup "gbene"
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Lot 300: Rare standing figure
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Lot 317: Large male shrine figure
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Lot 363: Anthropomorphic mask "ngil"
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Lot 366: Reliquary figure "mbulu" or "mwete"
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Lot 369: Figural dignitary staff
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Lot 375: Anthropo-zoomorphic mask
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Lot 390: Young maiden mask "mwana pwo"
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Lot 391: Mask "chikunza", before 1880
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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 360 : Standing figure "tadep"
Cameroon, Mambila
Private Collection (1970s) Schiller Art Gallery & Jean-Marc Desaive, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 361 : Ceremonial horn/trumpet "tawong"
Cameroon, Mambila
Pierre Robin, Paris, France (1980) Yves Créhalet, Paris, France
sold EUR 1,200
Lot 362 : Mask "mvudi"
Gabon, Adouma/Tsogho
French Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 363 : Anthropomorphic mask "ngil"
Gabon, Fang
Michel Gaud, Saint Tropez, France Bruno Frey, Arnay le Duc, France
sold EUR 8,500
Lot 364 : Knife with sheath
Gabon, Fang
Steven Alpert, Dallas, USA
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 365 : Figurally carved staff
Gabon, Fang/Bane
Friedrich Spengelin, Hannover/Hamburg, Germany
sold EUR 500
Lot 366 : Reliquary figure "mbulu" or "mwete"
Gabon, Kota, Obamba or Mindumu group
van Offelen, Brussels, Belgium French Private Collection, Paris Oger & Semont, Drouot-Richelieu, Paris, 22 June 2007 Massol, Drouot, Paris, 13 May 2009, lot 161 Michael Vignold, Köln, Germany Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 May 2011, lot 294
not available anymore
Lot 367 : Three-faced head sculpture
Gabon, Mbete/Kwele/Fang
Lucas Ratton, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 368 : Standing female ancestor figure
Gabon/D. R. Congo, Mbete
Stéphane Mangin, Galerie Kanaga, Paris
not available anymore
Lot 369 : Figural dignitary staff
Gabon, Punu/Lumbo
Old Belgian Collection
not available anymore
Lot 370 : Female face mask "okuyi"
Gabon, Punu
French Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 371 : Female face mask "okuyi"
Gabon, Punu/Tsogho
French Colonial Collection
not available anymore
Lot 372 : Female face mask "okuyi"
Gabon, Punu
Bertil Berg, Gothenburg, Sweden
not available anymore
Lot 373 : Female face mask "okuyi"
Gabon, Punu/Tsanghi
Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany Jagielsky, Hamburg, Germany (1967) Friedrich Spengelin, Hannover/Hamburg, Germany
sold EUR 600
Lot 374 : Standing female figure
Gabon, Punu/Lumbo
Leonard Kahan, New York, USA Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium Wolf-Bernard Müller, Krefeld, Germany
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 375 : Anthropo-zoomorphic mask
Gabon, Tsogho
Julius Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany Lore & Georg Kegel, Hamburg, Germany
sold EUR 9,000
Lot 376 : Dignitary staff
Gabon, Tsogho
Etude Yves Wetterwald & Patrick Rannou-Cassegrain, Nice, 6 December 2014, lot 78 Michael Griesser, Kufstein, Austria
not available anymore
Lot 377 : Gong "mokengue"
Gabon, Tsogho
Ruth & Marc Franklin, San Francisco, USA Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, USA (1989) Reynold Kerr, New York, USA (2010)
not available anymore
Lot 378 : Figure of St. Anthony
D. R. Congo
Wolfgang Nerlich, Munich, Germany Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 9 March 2013, lot 126
sold EUR 800
Lot 379 : Dignitary staff
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
French Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 380 : Small standing male figure
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
not available anymore
Lot 381 : Power figure "nkisi"
D. R. Congo, Bakongo/Yombe
Philippe Laeremans, Liège, Belgium
sold EUR 2,250
Lot 382 : Power figure "nkisi nduda"
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, Sweden
not available anymore
Lot 383 : Figurally carved tusk
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
Arcade Gallery, London, Great Britain
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 384 : Male figure "mukuya"
D. R. Congo, Bembe
Manfred Pütz, Cologne, Germany
sold EUR 2,700
Lot 385 : Ancestor pole with janus head
D. R. Congo, Biombo
Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany (collected in situ, in the village Sungi Munene, Kasai in 1955)
not available anymore
Lot 386 : Old war shield, 1900-1920
D. R. Congo, Boa
Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 1,300
Lot 388 : Standing male figure
D. R. Congo, Bwaka
Mark Eglinton, New York, USA
not available anymore
Lot 389 : Standing male figure
D. R. Congo, Bwaka
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 390 : Young maiden mask "mwana pwo"
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
Valluet-Ferrandin, Paris, France (2001)
sold EUR 6,600
Lot 391 : Mask "chikunza", before 1880
D. R. Congo, Chokwe - Angola/Zambia, Luena
Ernst Hieber, Brombach/Basel, Switzerland (acquired between 1880 and 1895) Fritz Hieber, Brombach/Basel, Switzerland Jean David, Zurich, Switzerland (2003) German Private Collection, Berlin
sold EUR 5,400
Lot 392 : Standing male figure
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium Wolf-Bernard Müller, Krefeld, Germany
sold EUR 600
Lot 393 : Figure of a chief
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
French Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 394 : Pair of power figures
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
Joseph Franzen, Heerlen, The Netherlands Private Dutch Collection
not available anymore
Lot 396 : Figurative staff
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium Wolf-Bernard Müller, Krefeld, Germany
sold EUR 450
Lot 397 : Stool with seated caryatid figure
D. R. Congo, Chokwe
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium Wolf-Bernard Müller, Krefeld, Germany
sold EUR 600
Lot 399 : Mask
D. R. Congo, Dengese
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium Wolf-Bernard Müller, Krefeld, Germany
sold EUR 900
Lot 400 : Comb
D. R. Congo, Dondo
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 401 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Goma
Dirk Vonck, Brussels, Belgium Wolf-Bernard Müller, Krefeld, Germany
sold EUR 1,600
Lot 402 : Helmet mask "matemu"
D. R. Congo, Holo
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 May 2011, lot 352 Christian Franke, Murrhardt, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 403 : Framed figure "nzambi"
D. R. Congo, Holo
not available anymore
Lot 404 : Half figure "kakudji"
D. R. Congo, Kasongo
not available anymore
Lot 405 : Anthropomorphic cup
D. R. Congo, Kuba
M. Theves- van Opstal, St. Genesius-Rode, Belgium Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 406 : Drinking horn
D. R. Congo, Kuba
sold EUR 380
Lot 407 : Mortar
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Eric Robertson, New York, USA Michael Rhodes, New York, USA
sold EUR 800
Lot 408 : Standing female figure
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Sotheby's, London, 27 October 1980, lot 145 Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 November 2009, lot 500 Italian Collection
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 409 : Squatting male figure
D. R. Congo, Kuba/Dengese
not available anymore
Lot 410 : Anthropomorphic face mask "ngady a mwaash"
D. R. Congo, Kuba/Kete
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany Zemanek-Münster, 3 March 2012, lot 440 Christian Franke, Murrhardt, Germany
sold EUR 4,000
Lot 411 : Mask "ngaady a mwaash"
D. R. Congo, Kuba
Christie's, London, 26 March 1996, lot 126
not available anymore
Lot 412 : Mask "pwoom itok"
D. R. Congo, Kuba
sold EUR 800