Anniversary Auction SALE 100
15 April 2023 - 100 masterful works from Africa, Oceania and Arctic Cultures
Auction in Würzburg:
Saturday, 15 April 2023 – 2 pm (CEST)
Previews in Munich and Würzburg:
Paul Gallery, Weissenburger Street 22, 81667 Munich
1 April from 2 pm to 9 pm
2 April from 11 am to 5 pm
Auction house, Würzburg
12 until 14 April from 10 am to 5 pm
One hundred auctions of non-European art - one hundred times art from Africa, Oceania, America and Arctic Cultures. More than thirty years after our first tribal art auction (1991) and the subsequent change from European to non-European art, we are pleased to be able to present on the occasion of our anniversary auction on April 15, 2023, with a special selection of African, Oceanic and Arctic Art. Works of unbridled creativity, artistic sophistication and with first-class provenances.
D. R. Congo, Luba: Royal caryatid stool "lupona", before 1909
ProvenanceOberleutnant Albert Linke (Lincke), collected in situ, before 1909 · By descent in the family, seller 2008 · Anton Mentrup, Mainz-Kastel, GermanyD. R. Congo, Songye / Luba: Female maskette "kifwebe" (pl. "bifwebe)
ProvenanceMuller-Van Isterbeek, Brussels, Belgium · Aaron Furman, New York, USA / Portugal (around 1959) · Allan Stone, New York, USACôte d'Ivoire, Bété: Anthropo-zoomorphic face mask "glae"
ProvenanceCarlo von Castelberg, Zurich, Switzerland · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 10. September 1994, Lot 78 · Bernhard Jäger, Frankfurt a. M., GermanyPapua New Guinea, Sawos / Iatmul: Exquisitely beautiful figural flute stopper
ProvenanceGalerie Lemaire, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsAlaska, Shishmaref, Thule: Rare wooden figure of the Thule culture, probably 17th century
ProvenanceJeffrey Myers, New York City, USA · John Giltsoff, Girona, SpainPapua New Guinea, East Sepik Province, Yuat River, Biwat (Mundugumor): Ceremonial carving
ProvenanceReputedly Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg · Lempertz, Brussels, 24. October 2018, Lot 182 (and pictured on the cover)
