Africa
African art
- Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Enthroned male figure from the "Treasure of the Saléfoué", before 1910
ProvenanceTrésor des Saléfoué, Côte d’Ivoire (prior to 1910) Joseph Cornet, French Administrative Official Louis Pieter Cornelis (Lode) van Rijn, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Galerie Kephri), 1970’s Walter Kaiser, Stuttgart, Germany Manfred Pütz, Cologne, Germany (1974)sold EUR 38,000 - Gabon, Kota, Obamba group
Reliquary figure "mbulu-ngulu" ("spirit of a deceased")
ProvenanceEverett Burton Helm, Minneapolis/Berlin, USA/ Germany Helm (1913-1999) was an American composer, musicologist and music critic. He studied at Harvard, and then after having been awarded a travel fellowship, with Gian Francesco Malipiero in Asolo, Italy and Ralph Vaughan Williams in England. In 1948, he was appointed Music Officer for the occupying US army in Germany. From 1950 and into the 1960s, Helm worked as a music critic in Germany. In parallel, he was composing. The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra commissioned and premiered his First Piano Concerto in 1951, the same year as his first opera, Adam and Eve, was performed at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.sold EUR 30,000 - D. R. Congo, Vili
Maternité "phemba" ("pfemba")
ProvenanceLudwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany Klaus Hummel, Korb, Germany (1967-80) Hummel (1939-2006) was an antiques dealer. Collecting African Art was his private hobby. Between 1967 and 1980, he bought and bartered a multitude of ancient African masks and figurines predominantly during his trips to Mr. Bretschneider in Munich and to Mr. Krieg in Neuenkirchen.sold EUR 40,000 - 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, Germanysold EUR 15,000 - Cameroon Grassfields, Bangwa, Fontem Valley
Rare, old Commemorative Figure of a King "fon", late 19th century
ProvenanceGerman Colonial Collection, collected in situ before 1914. Heinrich Vorwahl, Hamburg / Quakenbrück, Germany (born in 1898, year of death unknown, teacher and editor in religious studies, philosophy and philology as well as in history of medicine (focused on folk medicine) Vorwahl Family Collection, Germanysold EUR 60,000 - D. R. Congo, Songe/Luba, Kabalo area
Rare shield, before 1900
ProvenancePortuguese Collection (collected in situ, before 1900) German Private Collectionsold EUR 42,000
