97th Auction

Kunsthandel Jagielski, Hamburg, Germany (1961) H.G. Hannover, Germany

Neumeister, Munich, 24 May 2007, Lot 89 (as Baule) Bettina Rübesam, Munich, Germany

"White Fathers" ("Pères Blancs"), actually "Society of the Missionaries of Africa", Mission Museum, Altkirch, Alsace / France (now disbanded)

Samir Borro, Brussels, Belgium

French Private Collection

Bertil Berg, Gothenburg, Sweden Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 27 May 2017, Lot 232 Dutch Collection

Guillem Montagut, Barcelona, Spain Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium Dutch Private Collection

Jan Lundberg, Malmö, Sweden Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 12 May 2007, lot 185

Belgian Private Collection

André & Afo Guenneguez, France

Italian Private Collection

German Private Collection

John & Nicole Dintenfass, New York, USA Jo de Buck, Brussels, Belgium

Belgian Private Collection

Maurice Pierre Lapalud (1868-1935), coll. in situ between 1925 -1930

Alfred L. Scheinberg, New York, USA Mark Eglinton, New York, USA

German Private Collection

German Private Collection

German Private Collection

Neumeister, Munich, 16. November 2006, Lot 9 Bettina Rübesam, Munich, Germany

Walter Kaiser, Stuttgart, Germany Helmut Zake, Heidelberg, Germany

American Collection

Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium

Liuba & Ernesto (1918-2003) Wolf, São Paulo, Brasil (1964) By descent in the family Lempertz, Brussels, 9 April 2019, Lot 149 James Stephenson, New York, USA

German Collection (acquired 1970 / 71)

Old Swedish Collection Jyrki Lammi, Helsinki, Finland

Joseph ("Joe") Greenberg (1923-2007), Melbourne, Australia (acquired between 1940-70 in Europe, possibly London) Joe Greenberg was a leading Australian graphic designer whose career spanned five decades. Open to all forms of artistic expression, he and his wife Veronika amassed a large collection of paintings, sculptures, artefacts and curiosities that filled every available corner of their home. His particular fascination was religious art. From Christian works to Hindu paintings and manuscripts, his collection also included cult figures and masks from various African tribal traditions.

Old British Collection (coll. in the 1960s / 70s)

American Private Collection

American Private Collection

American Private Collection

Helmut Zake, Heidelberg, Germany Ketterer, Munich, 30. April 1988, Lot 231

Maurice Pierre Lapalud (1868-1935), coll. in situ between 1925 -1930 SVV J.-E. Prunier, Louviers, "L'Exigence du Beau", 20 May 2018, Lot 251

German Private Collection

French Private Collection

Mark Eglinton, New York, USA

American Private Collection

Helmut Zake, Heidelberg, Germany

Heinrich Siemers, Bayreuth, Germany

French Private Collection

Theo Poppmeier, Graz, Austria Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 November 2009, Lot 364 Austrian Collection

Robert Stolper, New York, USA (1964) Stolper Galleries, Robert Stolper and Morton Lipkin, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1965) William W. Brill (1918-2003), New York, USA (1965) By inheritance to his son (2003) Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 2006, Lot 13 Toby & Joey Tanenbaum, Toronto, Canada After a business trip to Nigeria in 1960, William Brill's great passion for collecting African art began. The majority of his collection was acquired between 1965 and 1969. With the travelling exhibition "Selections from the William W. Brill Collection of African Art" (1969), he presented 286 outstanding works of African art to the American public. This included the present, extremely rare terracotta object, which he had acquired at the Stolper Gallery in 1965. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue became formative for an entire generation of new collectors. The Brill Collection represents the spirit of a true collector - works of art brought together with a passionate energy and a tireless spirit. Brill lived with his objects, every corner of his house held African objects that he constantly rearranged and redecorated to enjoy them from a different angle, again and again.

Swiss Private Collection

Swiss Private Collection

German Collection (acquired 1970 / 71)

Maurice Pierre Lapalud (1868-1935), coll. in situ between 1925 -1930 SVV J.- E. Prunier, Louviers, "L'Exigence du Beau", 20 May 2018, Lot 252 Bruno Frey, Arnay-le-Duc, France Lapalud, born on 22 September 1868 in Miliana, Algeria, was a French colonial official. After holding various positions in the colonial administration in the Congo and India, he was governor of Gabon in 1918 and made it to governor-general of French Equatorial Africa in 1920 before serving as governor of the Ivory Coast in 1925. A square in Abidjan bears his name.

Thomas L. McNemar, Lexington, Virginia, USA

German Collection (acquired 1970 / 71)