58 cm. high 

71 cm. highProvenanceCharles Ratton, Paris ...[more]

31 cm. highProvenanceAlexis van Opstal (1847–1936), Rhode-Saint-Genèse, no.956First Belgian Auctioneer, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 11 May 20...

29 cm. highProvenanceWalter Bareiss, Connecticut/SalachNeumeister, Munich, 29 May 2008, lot 249 ...[more]

35 cm. highProvenanceBaudouin de Grunne, Brussels, inventory no.185 ...[more]

18.5 cm. highProvenanceReputedly René Rasmussen, Paris, 1976 ...[more]

65.5 cm. long

37.5 cm. highProvenanceCollected in situ between 1947 and 1949 by Albert Müller (1921-2001), a Belgian coffee producer ...[more]

123 cm. highProvenanceDr. Ullman, Hamburg ...[more]

26 to 32.5 cm. highProvenanceAlain Guisson, Brussels (for the painted Teke vessel) ...[more]

Cf. Berzock, K.B., For Hearth and Altar: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl Collection, Chicago, 2005, p.162, fig.10043 cm. highProvenanceJe...

36.5 cm. highProvenanceCollected in situ by Giovanni Boccia, volunteer for an NGO at the Ecole d’Art de Gitega in the 1970s ...[more]

34 cm. highProvenanceCollected in situ by Henry Schuermans, an architect who was working for La Compagnie du Chemin de Fer du Bas-Congo au Katanga...

37 cm. highProvenancePierre Langlois (1927-2015), Lille, 1969 ...[more]

Cf. Notes Analytiques sur les Collections Ethnographiques du Musée du Congo, Vol.II, Les Industries Indigènes, Fascicule 1, La Ceramique, Brussels...

23 and 16.5 cm. high

36.5 cm. longProvenanceWalter Wilhelm Georg Sabranski, chimney sweep and part-time archaeologist. Sabranski had broad interests. His profession ga...

28 cm. high ...[more]

15.5 and 17.5 cm. highProvenanceMarc Ginzberg, New York; Bonhams, New York, 20 November 2012, lot 45 (for the Sidamo headrest)Amyas Naegele, New Y...

Cf. Phillips, T., (ed.), Africa: The Art of a Continent, London, 1995, p.159, fig.2.4596 cm. highProvenanceColonial collection, East Germany, befo...

69 cm. highProvenanceCollected by Henrique Quirino da Fonseca in 1936, former director of the Companhia dos diamantes in Angola and founder of the...

This processional brass cross for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is incised on one side (illustrated here) with the Virgin and Child, St. ...

11 and 13 cm. wideThis lot contains materials which require a CITES licence for export outside of the EU contract countries. We would like to info...

9 cm. wideProvenanceFouad Tekalign, son of the Ethiopian collector/trader Tekalign BesepaThis lot contains materials which require a CITES licence...

68 cm. high ...[more]

208 cm. high ...[more]

186.5 cm. high ...[more]

72 cm. highProvenancePierre Langlois (1927-2015), Lille, 1969 ...[more]

93.5 cm. high ...[more]

26 and 38 cm. long ...[more]

10.5 cm. wideProvenanceSacred Heart Mission, Tilburg ...[more]

71 cm. longProvenanceReputedly Jonathan Millet, American trader ...[more]

48 cm. highProvenanceWellcome Collection, LondonDouglas Newton, New York ...[more]

Cf. Schoffel, S., Dreamtime Records, Brussels, 2020, p.64 and 66160.5 cm. highProvenanceMarie-Ange Ciolkowska (1898-1992), Paris Marie-Ange Ciolko...

19 cm. longProvenanceTaylor A. Dale, Santa FeWayne Heathcote, Suffolk ...[more]

29 x 23 cm. ...[more]

69 cm. wideProvenanceJoris Visser, Brussels ...[more]

67 cm. highProvenanceReputedly collected in the early 1950s by a missionary of the Societas Verbi Divini (Society of the Divine Word) ...[more]

155.5 cm. highProvenanceLempertz, Brussels, 5 April 2017, lot 257 ...[more]

71 cm. highProvenanceStan Moriarty, Sydney ...[more]

146 cm. highProvenanceChris Boylan, Sydney ...[more]

The front of the shield retains several arrow heads from use in battle. The surface shows the typical design of finely incised lines. The white mo...

Douglas Newton, who collected the present lot in the field, records in Crocodile and Cassowary (p.34) that this hook was fastened inside the peak ...

Cf. Conru, K., (ed.), Sepik Ramu Art, Brussels, 2019, p.151115 cm. highProvenanceAlex Philips, Melbourne ...[more]

The power of these figures from the Yuat river, with their huge heads, hunched shoulders and flexed legs, has always impressed collectors and arti...

120 and 84 cm. highProvenanceMatthias L.J. Lemaire, Amsterdam, 1960s ...[more]

130 cm. long, framedProvenanceJohn Giltsoff, Girona/Brussels ...[more]

86 cm. highProvenanceHerbert Baker, Los AngelesLiteratureEthnic Art from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Baker: Africa, Mediterranean, Ocea...

Cf. Newton, D., Crocodile and Cassowary, New York, 1971, p.191, fig.167, for a similar figure in the Metropolitan Museum collected by Father Heine...

Cf. Conru, K., (ed.), Sepik Ramu Art, Brussels, 2019, p.116, plate 46, for a similar figure collected by Fred Gerrits, probably from the village o...

Cf. Greub, S. et al., Art of Northwest New Guinea: From Geelvink Bay Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani, New York, 1992, p.139, fig.20, for a photograp...

Cf. Le Fur, Y. et al., “la mort n'en saura rien”, Paris, 1999, p.51, fig.16, for a similar figure in the Museum am Rothenbaum, Hamburg (formerly t...

176.5 cm. highProvenanceChristie’s, New York, 16 November 1995, lot 17 ...[more]

87 cm. high ...[more]

46 cm. high

77 cm. highProvenancePierre Langlois (1927-2015), Lille, 1974 ...[more]

14 and 18 cm. longProvenanceGalerie Michel Cachoux, Paris, 1990 (for the Sumatra blade) ...[more]

70 cm. highProvenanceBaron von Freydenegg, SteiermarkKlaus Clausmeyer, DusseldorfGalerie Axel Vömel, Dusseldorf ...[more]

Cf. Newton, D. et al., The Art of the Pacific Islands, Washington D.C., 1979, p.333, fig.22.72 for a similar figure in the Bruce Seaman collection...

75.5 cm. highProvenanceCollected in situ by Wayne Heathcote in the village of Gahom, 1963/64Douglas Newton, New YorkMarcia and John Friede, Rye, N...