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"
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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"
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Lot 98: Janus figure with prominent coiffure
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Lot 104: Delicate head- / neckrest "mutsago"
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Lot 122: Rare war headdress "painale"
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Lot 133: Standing female figure, ca. 500-900 AD
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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")
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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)
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Lot 252: Fetish object "bochio" with eight figures
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Lot 253: Anthropomorphic mask
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Lot 267: Male dance crest "aku wunu"
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Lot 273: Rare zoomorphic mask "gugwom" (crocodile?)
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Lot 276: Anthropomorphic figure "iagalagana"
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Lot 279: Anthropomorphic mask
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Lot 286: Male twin figure "ere ibeji"
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Lot 292: Rare reliquary figure "éyéma-o-byéri"
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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 320 : "Bwami" society mask "idimu"
D. R. Congo, Lega
not available anymore
Lot 321 : Mask "idimu" of the "bwami" society, pre-1930
D. R. Congo, Lega
Belgian Colonial Collection (arrived in Belgium in the early 1930s)
not available anymore
Lot 322 : Miniature mask "lukwakongo"
D. R. Congo, Lega
Edith & Roland Flak, Paris, France
sold EUR 900
Lot 323 : Anthropomorphic mask
D. R. Congo, Lega
sold EUR 4,000
Lot 324 : Anthropomorphic figure "iginga"
D. R. Congo, Lega
not available anymore
Lot 325 : Small anthropomorphic figure "iginga"
D. R. Congo, Lega
not available anymore
Lot 326 : Janus-headed figure "sakimatwematwe" ("Mr Many-Heads")
D. R. Congo, Lega
not available anymore
Lot 327 : Ritual object in shape of a knife
D. R. Congo, Lega
not available anymore
Lot 329 : Male face mask "shifola"
D. R. Congo, Lwalwa / Lualwa
Swiss Collection
not available anymore
Lot 330 : Caryatid stool "kipona" ("kihona")
D. R. Congo, Luba
Dandoy, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 331 : Staff of office "kibango"
D. R. Congo, Luba
Vicomte Théodore-Paul-Raoul d' Ouvrier de la Saigne (1864-1950) By descent through the family Artcurial, Paris, 4 December 2004, Lot 101 Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium (2005) Olivier Castellano, Paris, France (2008)
sold EUR 5,000
Lot 332 : Small power figure "mbulenga"
D. R. Congo, Lulua (Luluwa)
French Collection
not available anymore
Lot 333 : Sickle knife "trumbash", "dupa", "emambele"
D. R. Congo, Mangbetu
Dieter Schaffner, Groß-Gerau, Germany
sold EUR 300
Lot 335 : Sickle knife "trumbash", "dupa", "emambele"
D. R. Congo, Mangbetu
Dieter Schaffner, Groß-Gerau, Germany
sold EUR 250
Lot 336 : Dagger knife "sapi" with copper blade
D. R. Congo, Mangbetu
Dieter Schaffner, Groß-Gerau, Germany
sold EUR 180
Lot 337 : War shield
D. R. Congo, Mongo
sold EUR 800
Lot 338 : Anthropomorphic mask "mbuya"
D. R. Congo, Pende
Jan Kusters, Waalre, The Netherlands
not available anymore
Lot 339 : Mask-pendant "gikhoko" (pl. "ikhoko")
D. R. Congo, Pende
Horst Scheuermann, Bremen, Germany (acquired in Paris in the 1970s)
not available anymore
Lot 340 : Figural cult object
D. R. Congo, Salampasu
Taylor Dale, Santa Fé, New Mexico Alain Guisson, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 600
Lot 342 : Anthropomorphic mask
D. R. Congo, Shi
German Private Collection (coll. in situ, 1983-86)
sold EUR 900
Lot 343 : Female kifwebe" mask "kikashi"
D. R. Congo, Songye
Old British Collection
sold EUR 3,500
Lot 344 : Female kifwebe" mask "kikashi"
D. R. Congo, Songye
John J. Klejman, New York, USA
sold EUR 2,500
Lot 345 : Male power figure "nkisi/ nkishi"
D. R. Congo, Songe / Tetela
Lucien van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 346 : Large power figure "nkisi/ nkishi"
D. R. Congo, Songe, Eki-Belande
brought to Antwerp in 1950 Kevin Conru, London, Great Britain
not available anymore
Lot 347 : Male power figure "nkisi/ nkishi"
D. R. Congo, Songye
Consul Jean Thouvenin, Nancy, France Will Hoogstraate (1917-2008), Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1970s) Serge Reynes, Bagnolet, France Hoogstraate bought his first African objects at the age of sixteen, an "ibeji" pair, in 1933 from Lemaire. From 1960 to 1987 he directed the internationally renowned Galerie d'Eendt in Amsterdam, which specialized in modern art and exhibited renowned artists such as Bernard Buffet, Picasso, Karel Appel and Geer van Velde. Together with his wife he dedicated his life to collecting African and precolumbian art.
not available anymore
Lot 348 : Power figure "nkisi" in miniature form
D. R. Congo, Songe - Nsapo
not available anymore
Lot 349 : Squatting female figure
D. R. Congo, Songe / Kuba
not available anymore
Lot 350 : Prestige knife
D. R. Congo, Songe / Kusu / Tetela
not available anymore
Lot 351 : Power figure "phuungu"
D. R. Congo, Suku / Yaka
Michel Koenig, Brussels, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 353 : Male power figure "tege"
D. R. Congo, Teke
Lucas Ratton, Paris, France
not available anymore
Lot 354 : Seated figure with child
D. R. Congo, Tetela
Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 3,600
Lot 355 : Female power figure "nkisi", before 1904
D. R. Congo, Vili
Alain Guisson, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 3,200
Lot 357 : Ritual vessel in shape of a head
D. R. Congo, Yakoma
not available anymore
Lot 359 : Chief's stool with female caryatid figure
Angola, Chokwe
Old Belgian Colonial Collection Pierre Loos, Brussels, Belgium (1992) Michel Koenig, Brussels, Belgium
sold EUR 3,000
Lot 360 : Male ancestor spirit mask "chihongo"
Angola, Chokwe
Portuguese Collection
not available anymore
Lot 361 : Standing female figure with a hoe
Angola, Chokwe
Jean-Marc Desaive, Soumagne, Belgium
not available anymore
Lot 363 : Chief's throne with figural decoration
Angola, Chokwe
French Collection
not available anymore
Lot 364 : Three finely worked ornamental combs "cisakulo"
Angola, Chokwe
not available anymore
Lot 365 : Arm cuff
Ethiopia, Arussi
sold EUR 500
Lot 366 : Rare war shield
Kenya / Uganda
British Collection
sold EUR 4,500
Lot 367 : Shield
Ruanda / Burundi, Tutsi
sold EUR 1,000
Lot 368 : Large anthropomorphic mask
Tanzania, Sukuma
Belgian Private Collection
not available anymore
Lot 369 : Breastplate of a pregnant woman "njorowe"
Mozambique, Makonde
David Henninger, Haguenau, France
sold EUR 2,600
Lot 370 : Figure with fez-like headdress
South Africa, Nguni
British Collection
Price EUR 800
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Lot 371 : Double meat dish
South Africa, Nguni, Zulu / Swazi
Mark Eglinton, New York, USA
sold EUR 1,800
Lot 372 : Neckrest "isigqiki"
South Africa, Zulu
Jan Lundberg, Malmö, Sweden
not available anymore
Lot 373 : Neckrest "isigqiki"
South Africa, Zulu
Jan Lundberg, Malmö, Sweden
not available anymore
Lot 374 : Shapely snuff container
South Africa, Zulu / Sotho
Peter Biesmans, Bilzen, Belgium
sold EUR 1,200