Authentic and expressive tribal art

The preview is this week

Head sculpture "baathil", Lobi, Burkina Faso (Lot 10)

Provenance:
Bernd Muhlack, Kiel, Germany
Walter Schmidt, Würzburg (Germany) / Innsbruck (Austria)

Published in:
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrikanische Kunst in Deutschen Privatsammlungen, München 1973, p. 63
Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, p. 101, ill. 108

 

Dance crest, Keaka, Nigeria, before 1905 (Lot 323)

Provenance:
Richard Alexander Edwin Hermann von Knobloch (1868-1924), Nordheim/Nordhausen, Germany
Graf Karl Heinrich von Linden (1838-1910), Stuttgart, Germany
Linden-Museum, Stuttgart, Germany, Inventory No. 43112
Ludwig Bretschneider, Munich, Germany (1961)
Peter & Veena Schnell, Zurich, Switzerland
Sotheby's, Paris, 3 December 2004, lot 107

 

Preview in Wurzburg:
Wed, May 24th to Fri, May 26th – 10 am to 7 pm
Sat, May 27th – 9 am to 1.30 pm

Auction in Wurzburg:
Saturday, May 27, 2017 starting at 2 pm 

Telephone bidding support in German, English and French !

 

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