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, Germany - D. 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, USA - Côte 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., Germany - Papua New Guinea, Sawos / Iatmul
Exquisitely beautiful figural flute stopper
ProvenanceGalerie Lemaire, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Alaska, Shishmaref, Thule
Rare wooden figure of the Thule culture, probably 17th century
ProvenanceJeffrey Myers, New York City, USA John Giltsoff, Girona, Spain - Papua 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)
