African and Oceanic Art at Sotheby's - June 12, 2012

Sotheby's will put an exquisite group of African and Oceanic art and artifacts before the bidders in Paris on June 12. Highlights of the sale will include a stunning black Bete mask, a Fang reliquary figure, a cephalomorphic Igala head crest, a Yoruba Oshe Shango maternity figure, and a range of other sculptural masterworks from West and Central Africa, New Ireland, and elsewhere.

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Mask  -  Bete, Côte d'Ivoire

Reliquary figure  -  Fang, Gabon

Head crest  -  Igala, Nigeria

Oshe Shango maternity figure  -  Yoruba, Nigeria

Ivory cup with figurines  -  Sapi-Portuguese, Sierra Leone

Mask  -  Gere, Côte d'Ivoire

Power figure  -  Kongo, D.R. Congo

Female figure  -  Tiv, Nigeria

Malanggan mask  -  New Ireland

Canoe prow ornament  -  Solomon Islands

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The Florence Loeb Collection at Sotheby's - April 5

Daughter of the celebrated and visionary gallery-owner Pierre Loeb, the Parisian dealer of the greatest modern artists of the inter-war period, including Picasso, Miró and Giacometti, Florence Loeb inherited her father’s passion for distant cultures and his gift for forging special affinities with the most fascinating artistic personalities of his generation. Sotheby's will be offering Loeb's important collection of art and manuscripts on April 5 in Paris.

In addition to the finest ensemble of books and drawings by Antonin Artaud and a portrait of Pierre Loeb by Alberto Giacometti, the lots will include a selection of beautiful works from Africa, Oceania and the Americas.

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Tapa cloth  -  Humboldt Bay, Papua New Guinea

Byeri head  -  Fang, Gabon

Seated figure  -  Baule, Côte d'Ivoire

Kachina figure  -  Hopi, Arizona

Club  -  Solomon Islands

Bone mask  -  Eskimo, Alaska

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Tribal Art Auction - Dorotheum, April 2

Vienna auction house Dorotheum will present a sale of fine tribal antiquities on April 2. Primarily highlighting masks and statuary from West and Central Africa, the lots will also include a range of Indonesian and Pacific works, as well as a handful of Eskimo stone sculptures.

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Mask  -  Boa, D R Congo  -  Late nineteenth/early twentieth century

Feather currency roll  -  Santa Cruz Is., Solomon Islands

Head depicting a nobleman  -  Benin, Nigeria  -  Eighteenth or nineteenth century

Avian grave markers  -  Sakalava, Madagascar  -  Nineteenth or early twentieth century

Kifwebe mask  -  Songye, D R Congo

Bwami society mask  -  Lega, D R Congo

Cihongo mask  -  Chokwe, Southeastern Congo  -  Early twentieth century

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Hair Comb - Solomon Islands, New Acquisition

A very fine Solomon Islands hair comb.These decorated combs, called Faa, are worn by men as hair ornaments. The combs are decorated with plaited fiber. Yellow orchid fibers are used as well as the tissue of the coconut palm died red with a root called geru. Fern wood and orchid fiber

Marc and Denyse Ginzberg Collection

Bonham's Lot No: 4049

A Santa Cruz Island currency roll, tevau, Solomon Islands. Height 15inches, width 33inches.

Estimate: $4,000 - 6,000