March 7, 2020

94th Tribal Art Auction

Fine old Tribal Art from Africa, Australia, Oceania, Asia and America. The Stockholm Tribal Art Collection of Peter Willborg (special catalogue). Art works from Africa and Oceani from the Swiss private collection of Walter Stanley Schwab. Pre-Columbian artworks from the German private collection of Anna Maria Posset.

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Highlights

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Lot 1: Headrest with classical ancestral representations
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Lot 15: Helmet mask "ndoli jowei" of the "sande" (or "bundu") society
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Lot 34: Mask with tubular eyes
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Lot 40: Deformation mask "idiok ekpo"
1/5
Lot 43: Anthropomorphic headdress of the "oglinye" society
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Lot 46: Mask with articulated lower jaw "karikpo"
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Lot 52: Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
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Lot 71: Standing male figure "mukuya"
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Lot 72: Standing female figure "mukuya"
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Lot 73: Kneeling female figure with child
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Lot 75: Caryatid stool "kipona" ("kihona")
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Lot 76: Standing male ancestor figure "singiti" with hoe
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Lot 77: Power figure "nkisi nkondi"
1/5
Lot 82: Power figure "buti"
1/6
Lot 98: Janus figure with prominent coiffure
1/5
Lot 104: Delicate head- / neckrest "mutsago"
1/5
Lot 122: Rare war headdress "painale"
1/5
Lot 133: Standing female figure, ca. 500-900 AD
1/4
Lot 136: Sitting figure of the "Baby Face" type, ca. 1000-800 BC
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Lot 141: "Hacha" in shape of a human skull in profile, ca. 500-950 AD
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Lot 181: Standing female figure "asie usu" or "blolo bla"
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Lot 191: Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
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Lot 199: Grave figure "ntadi" in reflective posture ("fumani")
1/5
Lot 200: Power Figure "nkisi / nkishi"
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Lot 210: Rare mask "okobuzogui"
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Lot 216: Staff with female figure "solima bere"
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Lot 227: Beautiful portrait mask "ndoma"
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Lot 229: Anthropomorphic face mask "kpan" of the "goli" group
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Lot 232: Maternité
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Lot 240: Heddle pulley "kono" with anthropomorphic head and bowl
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Lot 245: Seated female figure
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Lot 248: Face mask "bla" (ram) or "tu bodu" (bush cow)
1/4
Lot 252: Fetish object "bochio" with eight figures
1/6
Lot 253: Anthropomorphic mask
1/6
Lot 267: Male dance crest "aku wunu"
1/6
Lot 273: Rare zoomorphic mask "gugwom" (crocodile?)
1/8
Lot 276: Anthropomorphic figure "iagalagana"
1/6
Lot 279: Anthropomorphic mask
1/5
Lot 286: Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
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Lot 292: Rare reliquary figure "éyéma-o-byéri"
1/5
Lot 296: Anthropomorphic dance crest "mbaing"
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Lot 331: Staff of office "kibango"
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Lot 343: Female kifwebe" mask "kikashi"
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Lot 345: Male power figure "nkisi/ nkishi"
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Lot 355: Female power figure "nkisi", before 1904
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Lot 359: Chief's stool with female caryatid figure
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Lot 360: Male ancestor spirit mask "chihongo"
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Lot 363: Chief's throne with figural decoration

94th Tribal Art Auction

Lot 265 : Standing female figure
Nigeria, Igbo
Italian Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 266 : Arm cuff
Nigeria, Igbo or Urhobo
not available anymore
Lot 267 : Male dance crest "aku wunu"
Nigeria, Jukun
Moses Asch (1905-1986), New York, USA (Plattenproduzent u. a. von Woody Guthrie)
not available anymore
Lot 268 : Figural drinking cup "(n)gbene"
Nigeria, Koro
Jean-Pierre Jernander, Brussels, Belgium (1980s) Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 20 May 2006, Lot 231 Joseph Christiaens, Brussels, Belgium Michel de Mol, Brussels, Belgium (2006) Jan Kusters, Waalre, The Netherlands
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 269 : Standing female figure of the "komtin" society
Nigeria, Mada / Montol
German Private Collection (coll. in situ, 1972-75)
sold EUR 900
Lot 270 : Standing male figure
Nigeria, Kantana / Mama
French Private Collection
sold EUR 1,500
Lot 271 : Zoomorphic mask "mangam"
Nigeria, Kantana / Mama
German Private Collection (coll. in situ, 1972-75)
sold EUR 750
Lot 272 : Zoomorphic dance crest "suah dua"
Nigeria, Sardauna province / Cameroon, Mambila
not available anymore
Lot 273 : Rare zoomorphic mask "gugwom" (crocodile?)
Nigeria, Northern Benue, Montol / Goemai
Berndt Helleberg, Stockholm, Sweden
not available anymore
Lot 274 : Standing male figure
Nigeria, Montol
Philippe & Lisa Laeremans, Liège, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 275 : Standing male figure
Nigeria, Mumuye
Manfred Schäfer, Ulm, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 276 : Anthropomorphic figure "iagalagana"
Nigeria, Mumuye
Jean Zimmermann, New York, USA Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 6,800
Lot 277 : Vase-shaped fake vessel
Nigeria, Cross-River area, Calabar, Qua
Lionel Adenis, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France
not available anymore
Lot 278 : Female figure "ihambe"
Nigeria, Tiv
Volker Siegemund, Berlin, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 279 : Anthropomorphic mask
Nigeria, Urhobo / Isoko
David Norden, Antwerp, Belgium Fily Keita, Los Angeles, USA
not available anymore
Lot 281 : Cult staff with statue for male aggression "iphri"
Nigeria, Urhobo
Private Collection, Brussels, Belgium Dorotheum, Vienna, 31 October 2017, Lot 61
sold EUR 800
Lot 282 : Pair of "kundul" statuettes
Nigeria, Upper Benue, Wurkun
Manfred Schäfer, Ulm, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 283 : Post figure "kundul"
Nigeria, Wurkun
Max Willborg, Stockholm, Sweden (1973)
sold EUR 600
Lot 284 : Helmet mask "gelede"
Nigeria, Yoruba
Belgian Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 285 : Female twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo, Ilorin
Manfred Schäfer, Ulm, Germany
not available anymore
Lot 286 : Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Awori, Ado Odo
sold EUR 2,370
Lot 287 : Pair of twin figures "ere ibeji"
Nigeria, Yoruba, Egba, Abeokuta
Manfred Schäfer, Ulm, Germany
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 288 : Pair of ritual staffs "edan ogboni" ("edan oshugbo")
Nigeria, Yoruba
Louise Clark, US Peace Corps worker in Nigeria (coll. in situ, 1962) Scott Rodolitz, New York, USA Mark Eglinton, New York, USA (No "4677")
sold EUR 7,000
Lot 289 : Bracelet
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamum
sold EUR 450
Lot 290 : Female helmet mask "ngoin" ("ngon")
Cameroon Grassfields, Kom / Bekom or Babanki
Johann Lévy, Paris, France
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 291 : Janiform helmet mask "agwe"
Cameroon Grassfields, Widekum
Tribal Arts Gallery II, New York, USA (1974) Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, USA (L80.62.118) Joshua Dimondstein, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 1,400
Lot 292 : Rare reliquary figure "éyéma-o-byéri"
Cameroon, Fang (Bane)
Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 14,000
Lot 293 : Equestrian figure "putchu guinadji"
Cameroon / Chad, Kotoko
sold EUR 800
Lot 294 : Rare anthropomorphic face mask
Cameroon, Ngolo-Kundu
sold EUR 2,000
Lot 295 : Male figure "tadep"
Cameroon, Mambila
Michel Gosse, Caen/Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 296 : Anthropomorphic dance crest "mbaing"
Cameroon, Ngambè-Tikar
German Private Collection (coll. in situ, 1972-75)
not available anymore
Lot 297 : Anthropomorphic face maske "okukwe"
Gabon, Galoa / Adouma / Tsogho
Bruno Frey, Arnay le Duc, France
not available anymore
Lot 299 : Standing female figure, before 1920
Gabon, Punu / Lumbo
Johannes Engels, Germany (worked as an engineer in Africa before World War II) Helmut Tirtey, Inden, Germany (by inheritance from his grandfather J. Engels) German Private Collection
sold EUR 600
Lot 300 : Squatting female figure "gheonga"
Gabon, Tsogho / Vuvi
Allan Stone, New York, USA
sold EUR 6,000
Lot 301 : Figure of the Crucified "nkangi kiditu"
D. R. Congo, Bakongo
François Restiau, Belgian colonial administrator (coll. in situ, between 1920-1935) Sold by the family (2005) Lucien van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium (2005) Restiau collected objects of African art while working for a railroad company in the Belgian Congo between 1928 -1948.
not available anymore
Lot 302 : Standing male figure "mukuya"
D. R. Congo, Bembe
not available anymore
Lot 303 : Janusfaced helmet mask "ibulu lya alunga" or "echwaboga" ("echawokaba")
D. R. Congo, Eastern Bembe
Alex Arthur, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 305 : Standing male figure
D. R. Congo, Ubangi, Bwaka (Ngbaka)
not available anymore
Lot 306 : Plaited shield
D. R. Congo / Central African Republik, Ngbaka-Gbaya, Manza
sold EUR 1,100
Lot 308 : Prestige knife with asymmetrical blade
D. R. Congo, Ekonda
not available anymore
Lot 309 : Janiform magical figure "kabeja"
D. R. Congo, Hemba
Price EUR 2,500
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 310 : Standing male ancestor figure "singiti"
D. R. Congo, Hemba
Wolfgang Nerlich, Munich, Germany Hermann Sommerhage, Duisburg, Germany
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 311 : Standing male ancestor figure "singiti"
D. R. Congo, Hemba
Georges-Jean Haefeli, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
not available anymore
Lot 312 : Two lidded boxes and a drinking horn
D. R. Congo, Kuba
sold EUR 650
Lot 313 : Anthropomorphic cup
D. R. Congo, Kuba
not available anymore
Lot 314 : Textile
D. R. Congo, Western Kasai, Kuba Kingdom, Kuba / Ngongo
not available anymore
Lot 315 : Mat "tuhu"
D. R. Congo, Kuba / Tetela
not available anymore
Lot 316 : Bracelet
D. R. Congo, Kuba
not available anymore
Lot 317 : Raffia weaving "mbal" (pl. "bilaam")
D. R. Congo, Kuba-Shoowa
not available anymore
Lot 318 : Raffia weaving "mbal" (pl. "bilaam")
D. R. Congo, Kuba-Shoowa
not available anymore