Friday, September 12, 2014

The Frum Collection at Sotheby's

The superb collection of Oceanic art from Polynesia and Melanesia formed by the late Murray Frum and his family is the most significant group to come to market in the last thirty years, with a variety of objects from Indonesia to Polynesia at all ranges of the market. To be held only two days after Parcours des Mondes on September 16, the sale will be highlighted an extremely rare group of pre-contact Polynesian works.

View the online catalogue.

Figure, pou whakairo  -  Maori, New Zealand

Head of a staff god  -  Rarotonga, Cook Islands

Malanggan figure  -  New Ireland
Images and information courtesy of Sotheby's


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