Auction announcement Session I: Tribal Art
Tribal Art auction on the 17th and 20th of November 2018 (Lots 1-341)
Experience art anew! Dare new perspectives! This is what we would like to share with you. Be inspired by works from various cultures of the world combined with contemporary art and ceramics.
Auction in Wurzburg:
Session I: Tribal Art - Tribal Art, Japan, Contemporary Art & Ceramics
17th of November 2018 – 2 pm
Session II: Contemporary Native American Art - The private collection of the Americanist Prof. Gerhard and Dr. med. Gisela Hoffmann
20th of November 2018 – 2 pm
Preview in Wurzburg:
Session I + II: 14th to 16th of November - from 10 am to 7 pm and the 17th of November - from 9 am to 2 pm
Session II: 19th of November - from 9 am to 5 pm and the 20th of November - from 9 am to 2 pm
With Tribal Art as the point of departure for modernity, we give the works their due place and respect and place them together at eye level. We want to inspire, connect categories and create areas of tension in which existing things can be experienced anew.
Fig.1: Tansu merchant chest ,choba dansu', unknown master, Japan, Meiji period ~ 1900, Provenance: Margarita Hake, Dusseldorf (Starting price 600 €); Standing male figure, from the "Master of the Sakassou Region", Baule, Ivory Coast, Provenance: Patrick Girard, Lyon / Adrian Schlag, Brussels / Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels (Starting price 35,000 €); Bowl, 2018, Thomas Henle, signed (Starting price: 250 €); Vase "hanaire", 2018, Thomas Henle, signed (Starting price: 700 €); Ancestral skull, Asmat, Papua New Guinea, Provenance: Southern German collection (1970s in situ) (Starting price: 4000 €); Surface Series: From Currents, Robert Rauschenberg, 1970, ed. 13/100, signed, numbered and dated (Starting price: 2000 €)
Fig.2:
Fig.2:'tjiwara' headdress, unknown master, Bamana, Mali, Provenance: et al Claude Vérité, Paris 1951 (Starting price 8000 €); Rare Helmet Mask 'degele' from the “Second Master of Lataha”, Senufo, Korhogo, Ivory Coast, Lataha Village Wood, Provenance: Alfred L. Scheinberg, New York / Stewart J. Warkow, New York (Starting price 20,000 €); Anthropomorphic helmet mask, unknown master of Bobo, Burkina Faso, Provenance: Alfred L. Scheinberg, New York / Stewart J. Warkow, New York / Mark Eglinton, New York (Starting price 8000 €); Chiefs Stool of the "Master of Rectangular Hands", Zula / Zimba, D.R. Congo, Povenance: et al Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels (Starting price: 20.000 €); Large face mask of the "goli" group, unknown master of the Baule, Ivory Coast Wood, Provenance: Jan Lundberg, Malmo / Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels (Starting price 7000 €); "Zeichen", around 1960, Rudolf Petrik (1922-1991), Vienna, signed, no. 44 (Sarting price: 2000 €)
Session II: Contemporary Native American Art - The private collection of the Americanist Prof. Gerhard and Dr. Gisela Hoffmann
Auction: the 20th of November 2018 – 2 pm
A few days later, on the 20th of November, Zemanek-Münster will auction Contemporary Art of the Indians and Inuit of the 20th Century from the private collection of the Americanist Professor Gerhard and Dr. Gisela Hoffmann. For more information see Session II: Contemporary Native American Art