Open sale

In our depot in Wurzburg you can find tribal art from past auctions - more than 485 objects from all continents and from European collections, which you can directly acquire at the minimum price.

See for yourself  in our online open sale catalogue, or visit us in our auction house in Wurzburg. We look forward to helping you!

Sword-shaped club
Lot: 3050100

Solomon Islands - Rennel Island

Ancestor figure "adu zatua"
Lot: 3049214

Indonesia - Nias

Erotic vessel, c. 450 - 550 AD
Lot: 3049919

Peru, Moche

Provenance Size Price
Allan Stone, New York, USA H: 52.4 inch 26000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Canadian Private Collection H: 27.2 inch 25000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro, Master of Gohitafla
3046756
Provenance Size Price
Madelyn Klein Anderson, New York, USA
Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium (2018)
H: 14.6 inch 25000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Worodugu Region, Malinke
3043145
Provenance Size Price
Old British Collection L: 57.1 inch 25000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3040589
Provenance Size Price
American Collection, Florida H: 36.4 inch 20000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro, Master of Gohitafla
3048979
Provenance Size Price
Butterfield and Butterfield (ca.1965)
Private American Collection (1965-2018)
Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium
German Private Collection
H: 11.8 inch 20000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
D. R. Congo, Dondo / Kamba / Bwende
3045323
Provenance Size Price
Erik Berlin, Malmö, Sweden (1950's)
Jan Lundberg, Malmö, Sweden
Mark Eglinton, New York, USA
Maureen Zarember, New York City, USA
H: 22 inch 18000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
New Zealand, Maori
3050089
Provenance Size Price
Hellmut Patzer, Silesia, Poland (acquired in the 1st half of the 20th century) L: 14.6 inch 15000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Austral Islands
3050192
Provenance Size Price
Hellmut Patzer, Silesia, Poland (acquired in the 1st half of the 20th century) L: 66.9 inch 15000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance Size Price
Joan Didion (1934-2021), New York City, USA

Didion was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe.
H: 41.3 inch (male); 42.1 inch (female) 15000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance Size Price
American Private Collection, New York City
Arte Primitivo, New York, March 30, 2009, Lot 512
Michael Beckmann, Marburg, Germany
H: 24.8 inch; B: 14.6 inch 10000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Micronesia - Caroline Islands, Nukuoro Atoll
3048939
Provenance Size Price
American Private Collection H: 17.1 inch 10000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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American Private Collection H: 31.1 inch 9000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke / Bangwa
3049496
Provenance Size Price
Rut Van Caelenbergh, Brussels, Belgium (2012)
Dalton - Somaré, Milan, Italy
Jeffrey Clifton, California, USA
Fernandez Leventhal Gallery, New York, USA (2021)
H: 20.9 inch 9000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
South Africa, Zulu/ Nguni
3045054
Provenance Size Price
German Collection L: 228.3 inch 8000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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presumably Leo Frobenius (1873-1938), Berlin, Germany
Julius Konietzko (1886-1952), Hamburg, Germany
Lore Kegel, Hamburg (1901-1980), Germany
Boris Kegel-Konietzko (1925-2020), Hamburg, Germany
Thomas Morbe, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Private Collection, Munich, Germany
H: 12.6 inch 8000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3050357
Provenance Size Price
James Willis, San Francisco, USA
Morton Dimondstein, Los Angeles, USA
Dave DeRoche, San Francisco, USA
H: 36.8 inch 8000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
New Zealand, Maori
3050088
Provenance Size Price
Hellmut Patzer, Silesia, Poland (acquired in the 1st half of the 20th century) L: 15.7 inch; H: 3.9 inch 8000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3049751
Provenance Size Price
Franco Monti (1931-2008), Milan, Italy
Alberto Galaverni (1933-2013), Parma, Italy
Koller, Geneva, "Art Tribal - Collection Galaverni, Parme", 11 December 2013, Lot 145
Frank van Craen, Brussels, Belgium
Belgian Private Collection
H: 9.1 inch 8000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Eastern Congo / Western Tanzania, Lake Tanganyika, Tabwa, Ijiji
3049158
Provenance Size Price
American Private Collection H: 16.1 inch 8000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
D. R. Congo, Luba
3027600
Provenance Size Price
Old Canadian Private Collection H: 16.1 inch 6000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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German Colonial Collection, pre 1918 H: 19.7 inch 6000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3041486
Provenance Size Price
Patti Cadby Birch, NewYork, USA H: 16.1 inch 5000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Cameroon, Kaka
3047193
Provenance Size Price
University of Virginia Art Museum, USA (1980.47.11)
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 24 November 2007, Lot 155
American Private Collection
H: 25.4 inch 5000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance Size Price
H: 44.1 inch/ 50.2 inch (with wheels); B: 57.9 inch; T: 26.4 inch 5000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Nigeria, Ogoni / Ibibio
3045154
Provenance Size Price
Fily Keita, Los Angeles, USA H: 18.1 inch 5000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Atié/Ebrié
3044148
Provenance Size Price
German Collection H: 30.3 inch 4500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Liberia, Grebo / Toma
3049043
Provenance Size Price
Vittorio Mangio, Monza, Italy
H: 27.6 inch 4500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
D. R. Congo, Eastern Bembe, Buyu / Nyindu
3048168
Provenance Size Price
German Collection H: 11 inch 4500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Mali, Bozo / Mande, Kita Region
3050358
Provenance Size Price
Private Miami Collection, USA H: 34.3 inch 4000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
3049164
Provenance Size Price
Petr Zubek, Düsseldorf, Germany
Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium
H: 15.6 inch 4000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Rain, Gavin (*1971), Cape Town, South Africa
3045879
Provenance Size Price
M: 39.4 inch x 39.4 inch 4000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Agni / Sanwi, Krinjabo area
3045350
Provenance Size Price
Marcel Lheureux, France
Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965), Paris / New York, USA
Parke-Bernett Galleries, New York, 2nd Session: 29 April 1966, lot 141 (not illustrated)
H: 7.1 inch 4000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3049513
Provenance Size Price
René and Maud Garcia, Paris, France L: 49.6 inch; H: 20.5 inch 4000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
D. R. Congo, Ituri, Ndaaka / Bira
3048464
Provenance Size Price
Marc Leo Felix, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie Jahn, Munich, Germany
Tom Levine (1945-2020), New York-Chelsea, USA
H: 8.1 inch / 13.2 inch (with beard) 4000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3049157
Provenance Size Price
Old UK Collection H: 15.7 inch 4000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Michael Beckmann, Marburg, Germany H: 7.5 inch 4000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium H: 21.5 inch 4000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Austral Islands
3050092
Provenance Size Price
Hellmut Patzer, Silesia, Poland (acquired in the 1st half of the 20th century) L: 59.8 inch 3500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Cameroon, southern / Equatorial Guinea, Beti-Fang, Eton
3046782
Provenance Size Price
Allan Stone, New York, USA H: 5.5 inch 3500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke / Bangwa
3048167
Provenance Size Price
Old British Collection (coll. in the 1960s / 70s) H: 15.4 inch 3000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3048182
Provenance Size Price
Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Jack Faxon (1936-2020), Detroit / Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA

Former state Sen. Jack Faxon was an avid collector who filled his Birmingham house with art and objects ranging from African masks and figures to choice pieces of American arts-and-crafts. He lended objects from his private collection to the "Detroit collects African Art" ehibition in the Detroit Institute of Arts, April 21 - May 29, 1977. Later in his life he donated objects to the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Smithsonian Institution Washinton, DC.
H: 8.5 inch 3000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3048497
Provenance Size Price
French Private Collection, Paris H: 16.3 inch 3000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Liberia / Côte d'Ivoire, Grebo / Kru
3047150
Provenance Size Price
Knud Nielsen, Jelling, Denmark H: 14 inch 3000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
D. R. Congo, Luba
3049410
Provenance Size Price
Old Colonial Collection
Dries, Brussels, Belgium
H: 54.3 inch 3000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Nigeria, Igbo, Awka Region
3044732
Provenance Size Price
Family Estate Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Jones, London, Great Britain

Jones (1940-1982) was a British Army officer and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, awarded for his actions as commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment during the Falklands War.
H: 13.2 inch; D: 13.6 inch 3000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Nigeria, Ibibio
3036752
Provenance Size Price
Dutch Private Collection H: 16.7 inch / 17.1 inch 3000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Nigeria, Owo Yoruba / Ishan
3049160
Provenance Size Price
Irwin Hersey (1920-2010), New York, USA
Frederic ("Frits") Wallace (1914-2014), Sarasota, USA (1980s)
Private collection, Calm Ocean, USA (2014)
H: 11.4 inch 3000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3049511
Provenance Size Price
René and Maud Garcia, Paris, France H: 13.8 inch 3000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
3046278
Provenance Size Price
Harvey R. ("Bud") Frantz (died 1963), Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
Colleen (Frantz) Compton-Deater, Danielsville, Pennsylvania, USA

Late in 1936 H. R. Frantz was sent to Liberia, West Africa, to manage a 3,000-acre estate and oversee the work of 500 natives for the Firestone Plantation Company. His work included development of new rubber plantations from the jungle as well as the production of liquid latex. When his job was finished, he and a few friends struck out northward through the jungle, travelling by whatever means they happened to come across, mostly by canoe or foot, until they finally reached the legendary town of Timbuktu. When he returned to his country two years later, Frantz brought the Dan couple to Pennsylvania, where it remained in family estate up to now. The above is confirmed by Colleen (Frantz) Compton-Deater, the granddaughter of H. R. Frantz.
H: 29.3 inch & 30.3 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance