On November 15, 2013, Sotheby’s will present The Collection of Allan Stone: African, Oceanic, and Indonesian Art—Volume One, the first of two sales of the tribal art collection of the legendary New York art dealer. A second sale of equal size will be held in November 2014. Sotheby’s believes that this is the most significant African and Oceanic art collection to be offered in New York since the Helena Rubinstein auction in 1966. Many of the works to be offered have been included in publications and museum exhibitions. A small selection from the collection was the subject of the 2011 exhibition Power Incarnate: Allan Stone’s Collection of Sculpture from the Congo at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. Among the highlights of the collection is an exceptional group of Songye power figures and Kongo nail figures from the Democratic Republic of the Congo—two of the most iconic genres of African art.
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| Power figure - Kongo/Yombe, D. R. Congo |
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| Warrior mask - Kuba, D.R. Congo |
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| Kifwebe mask - Songye, D. R. Congo |
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| Power figure - Songye, D. R. Congo |
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| Power figure - Songye, D. R. Congo |
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| Power figure - Songye, D. R. Congo |
Images courtesy of Sotheby's
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