Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Christie's Tribal Art Sale in Paris Preview

The Christie's Art Africain et Oceanien sale is going on at this very moment. The auction, comprised of 227 lots total, has some very fine pieces in the sale. A few we'd like profile include Lot 236, a Rare and Magnificent Maori Statue that is estimated to fetch between €150,000 and €250,000. I had the pleasure of seeing this piece in the Christie's showroom in New York and it is ever better looking in person than online. Chrisitie's has done a thorough write up in English on this object that might be of interest to some of you. 
In addition, Lot 311 is a rather fine piece. The object, an Important Songye Statute is estimated to fetch between €100,000 and €150,000. Notably, these are the only two objects in the sale that have estimates in the €100,000 range. And even more important, there are only 25 objects (only 9%) in total with estimates over €10,000. 
Stay tuned for the results of this auction and we'll be posting more soon. 

Dori Rootenberg

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