Online catalogue for the 46th tribal art auction

21 Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer München

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Literatur: Auktionskataloge

31. Auktion: Afrika /Oceanien, Mai 1979 und 38. Auktion: Aussereuropäische Kunst, Mai 1980

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22 Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer München

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Literatur: Auktionskataloge

Konvolut: 2 Kataloge, Außereuropäische Kunst, 49. Auktion, November 1981 und Afrika - Ozenanien, 55. Auktion, Mai 1982

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23 BRUNEAF - Brussels non european art fair

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Literatur: Auktionskataloge

2 Kataloge: XIV: 8/6/2004 und XV: 8/6/2005

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24 Auktionskataloge/Diverse

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Literatur: Auktionskataloge

3 Stk., Auktionshaus Nusser, München, Außereuropäische Kunst, 23. November 1995; Dörling, Buch- und Kunstantiquariat Hamburg, Oktober 1993 und Sigalas, November 2002

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25 Galerie Koller Zürich

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Literatur: Auktionskataloge

Präkolumbische Kunst, Auktion 89/4, 18.November 1993

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26 Butterfields San Francisco

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Literatur: Auktionskataloge

Native American, Pre-Columbian, Spanish Colonial & Tribal Works of Art

, San Franciso, October 31, 2000
, San Franciso, October 31, 2000

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27 Art Prehistorique d´Alaska

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Literatur: Auktionskataloge, Fraysse & Associés

, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, lundi 6 juin 2005
, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, lundi 6 juin 2005

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28 Male ancestor figure

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Papua New Guinea - Lower Sepik

wood, dull patina, standing on a raised plinth, long, narrow torso, free worked, long arms, rounded shoulders, expressive face with remains of sacrificial traces, min. dam., cracks, signs of abrasion, on wooden base; probably made by Angoram people from the Kanduonum village area near the Yuat river; such statues were made to commemorate especially venerated ancestors, and were often conceived as portraits

H: 46 cm, 19th or early 20th century
H: 18.1 inch, 19th or early 20th century

Provenance
published in: Conru, Kevin, Southeast African and Oceanic art, Brüssel 2005
Private Canadian Coll.
Kevin Conru, London, Great Britain

Price: 6500 - 9700 €

29 Ancestor figure

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Papua New Guinea - Ramu River

wood, painted in red, black, white and yellow ochre, rising from a conical-shaped base, free carved arms, both hands resting aside the upper legs, a big head tapering to the top, surmounted by a chameleon, big slanting eyes and a long beak-like nose reaching up to the navel, the figure is dyed in red, face and "beak" are accentuated by yellow ochre, in black and white painted lines and ornaments, slightly damaged, cracks, paint rubbed off, on base; the "beak-style" is characteristic for figures of the lower sepik and refers to the close connection between man and bird. The sepik people look upon the bird as being responsible to transport the soul of men into the other world ("soul bird").

H: 58 cm
H: 22.8 inch

Provenance
Sotheby´s New York, December 2005

Literature
Ferne Völker - Frühe Zeiten, Kunstwerke aus dem Linden-Museum Stuttgart, Bd. 1: Afrika, Ozeanien, Amerika, Recklinghausen 1982, Abb.S. 196;
Aumann, Georg, Kunst und Kunsthandwerk aus Neu Guinea, Ausst.kat. Natur-Museum Coburg 1986, S. 20/21

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30 Standing male figure

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Papua New Guinea - Lower Sepik

wood, dull blackish-brown patina, red paint, free carved thin legs are supporting an elongated trunk with narrow (contracted) shoulders and with the arms carved close to the body, both hands are resting aside the abdomen, a loincloth of different coloured grass fibre around the hips, a neckless head with a shield-shaped flattened facial plane which is dominated by a huge arrow-shaped nose, a conical-shaped coiffure on top, slightly dam., cracks, paint rubbed off; expressive work, depiction of a mythical ancestor

H: 1,45 m, um 1900, vor Ort gesammelt
H: 1,45 m, um 1900, vor Ort gesammelt

Provenance
Coll. Wilhelm Landu, Schiffsingenieur bei der norddt. Lloyd

Literature
New Guinea Art - Masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede, Volume I, Fine Arts Museum San Francisco 2005, Abb. 57, S. 83

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