NEW IRELAND ARTIST

Lot 35
16.05.2024 19:00UTC -05:00
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$ 1 500 000
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1209447
Lot 35 | NEW IRELAND ARTIST
Estimate value
$ 1 500 000 – 2 000 000
NEW IRELAND ARTIST
Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
19th century
Uli figure, lembankakat egilampe
50 in. (127 cm.)
Alstonia wood, natural pigments, turbo petholatus




Provenance

Arthur Speyer II (1894-1958), Berlin, by 1924
Friedrich-Wilhelm Fuchs, Berlin
Otto Dix (1891-1969), Dresden, acquired from the above
The Otto Dix Foundation, Switzerland
Lempertz, Brussels, 31 March 2012, lot 120
Private collection, Switzerland



Literature

Schindlbeck, M., Gefunden und verloren. Arthur Speyer, die Dreissiger Jahre und die Verluste der Sammlung Südsee des Ethnologischen Museums Berlin, Bönen, 2012, pp. 109, 111 and 113, nos. 52, 54, 55
Beaulieu, J.-P., Uli: Powerful Ancestors from the Pacific, Bornival, 2021, p. 277, no. U8-3, (illustrated)
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