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Statue malangan

Lot 8
06.03.2024 15:00UTC +00:00
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€ 378 000
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ID 1158310
Lot 8 | Statue malangan
Estimate value
€ 300 000 – 500 000
Statue malangan

Nouvelle-Irlande, Archipel Bismarck, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée

Hauteur : 162.5 cm. (64 in.)





Provenance

Collection Albert Kornmayer, Kokopo, acquis entre 1903 et 1905

Collection Frédéric 1er de Bade - Grand-Duc de Bade (1826-1907), Karlsruhe, acquis par donation le 10 juin 1905

Collection Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, acquis ca. 1919

Collection Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Ethnographic Museum of Mannheim, Mannheim, acquis en 1935 (inv. n° III Su 6103)

Arthur (Johannes Otto Jansen) Speyer III (1922 - 2007), Berlin, acquis le 11 décembre 1972

Collection Monique (1929-2019) et Jean Paul (1930-2016) Barbier-Mueller, Genève, acquis en octobre 1984 (inv. n° 4344)



Literature

Newton, D. et Waterfield, H., Sculpture. Chefs-d’œuvre du musée Barbier-Mueller/Tribal Sculpture. Masterpieces from Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific in the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Genève, 1995, p. 315

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. 126 et 127, n° 31

Newton, D., Arts des mers du sud. Insulinde, Mélanésie, Polynésie, Micronésie. Collections du musée Barbier-Mueller/Art of the South Seas. Island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia. The Collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller, Paris, 1998, p. 255, n° 14

Gaßner, H. et Vitali, C., Kunst über Grenzen. Die Klassische Moderne von Cézanne bis Tinguely und die Weltkunst - aus der Schweiz gesehen, Munich, 1999, pp. 384 et 457, n° 319

Barbier, J.P., « Confidentiellement vôtre…/Confidentially Yours… », in Arts & Cultures, Genève, 2003, n° 4, p. 257

Alleva, A. d’ et al., Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie. Fleurons du musée Barbier-Mueller/Arts of Africa and Oceania. Highlights from the Musée Barbier-Mueller, Genève, 2007, pp. 326-327 et 394

Barley, N. et al., Les collections Barbier-Mueller. 110 ans de passion, Grenoble, 2017, p. 30, n° 27



Exhibited

Paris, Mona Bismarck American Center, Nouvelle-Irlande. Arts rituels d’Océanie dans les collections du musée Barbier-Mueller, 30 avril - 28 juin 1997

Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, MAAOA - Musée d'Arts Africains, Océaniens et Amérindiens, Arts des Mers du Sud. Insulinde, Mélanésie, Polynésie, Micronésie. Collections du Musée Barbier-Mueller, 5 juin - 4 octobre 1998

Paris, Grand Palais, Biennale des Antiquaires, Les collections Barbier-Mueller. 110 ans de passion, 11 - 17 septembre 2017



Further details

Malagan figure, New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
Medium:Wood, Shell
Place of origin:Papua New Guinea
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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