ID 1158311
Lot 79 | Masque Île de Lihir
Estimate value
€ 30 000 – 50 000
Nouvelle-Irlande, Archipel Bismarck, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Hauteur : 60 cm. (23 5⁄8 in.)
Provenance
Collection Richard Heinrich Robert Parkinson (1844-1909), Kokopo
Collection Ernst Heinrich, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Oceanic & African Art from the Heinrich Collection, 21 octobre 1967, lot 66
Charles Ratton (1895-1986), Paris
Morris Pinto (1925-2009), Genève
Félicia Dialossin (1922-1990), Paris
Collection Monique (1929-2019) et Jean Paul (1930-2016) Barbier-Mueller, Genève, acquis en avril 1977 (inv. n° 4310-B)
Literature
Muensterberger, W., Universalité de l’art tribal. Universality of Tribal Art, Genève, 1979, pp. 94 et 95
Kaufmann, C., Masques d’Océanie. Introduction à l’art de la Mélanésie, Genève, 1985, p. 15, n° 16
Gunn, M., Nouvelle-Irlande. Arts rituels d’Océanie dans les collections du musée Barbier-Mueller/New Ireland. Ritual Arts of Oceania in the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Lausanne, 1997, pp. 82 et 83, n° 9
Newton, D., « L’art de Nouvelle-Irlande/The Art of New-Ireland », in Art tribal. Musée Barbier-Mueller, Genève, 1997, p. 31, n° 6
Exhibited
Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Universalité de l’art tribal. Universality of Tribal Art, 1er janvier - 30 septembre 1979
Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Masques d’Océanie. Introduction à l’art de la Mélanésie, 1er avril 1985
Paris, Mona Bismarck American Center, Nouvelle-Irlande. Arts rituels d’Océanie dans les collections du musée Barbier-Mueller, 30 avril - 28 juin 1997
Further details
Mask, Lihir Island, New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
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Place of origin: | Papua New Guinea |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
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Place of origin: | Papua New Guinea |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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