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Statue uli

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ID 1158321
Lot 80 | Statue uli
Statue uli

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

Hauteur : 90 cm. (35 ½ in.)





Provenance

Probablement collection Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

Arthur (Max Heinrich) Speyer II (1894-1958), Berlin

Collection Serge Brignoni (1903-2000), Berne

Charles Ratton (1895-1986), Paris

Collection Jay C. Leff (1925-2000), Uniontown, Pennsylvanie

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4 octobre 1969, lot 112

John J. Klejman (1906-1995), New York

Collection Monique (1929-2019) et Jean Paul (1930-2016) Barbier-Mueller, Genève, acquis en 1973 (inv. n° 4313)



Literature

American Museum of Natural History, Faces and Figures. Pacific Islands Art from the Collection of Jay C. Leff, New York, 1965, n° 44

Gifford, P., The Iconology of the Uli Figure of Central New Ireland, New York, 1974, pp. 234 et 365, n° 127

Jeanneret, A., Laude, J. et al., Art d’Océanie, d’Afrique et d’Amérique. Récentes acquisitions. Collection Barbier-Müller, Genève, 1977, pp. 66 et 67, n° 48

Gifford, P., « Uli Figures », in Connaissance des arts tribaux, Genève, 1979, n° 1

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, pp. 310 et 311

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. 88 et 89, n° 11

Kan, M. et al., Art tribal. Musée Barbier-Mueller, Genève, 1997, plat recto et p. 23

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. 246, n° 2

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. 383 et 457, n° 318

Sollers, P., Ormesson, J. d’ et al., 5000 ans de figures humaines. Cent regards sur les collections Barbier-Mueller, Genève, 2000, n° 056

Barbier, J.P., « Confidentiellement vôtre... /Confidentially Yours... », in Arts & Cultures, Genève, 2003, n° 4, p. 255

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. 320-321 et 394

Denner, A. et Wick, O., Visual Encounters. Africa, Oceania, and Modern Art/Bildgewaltig. Afrika, Ozeanien und die Moderne, Bâle, 2009, vol. XIII, n° 7

Beaulieu, J.-P., Uli. Powerful Ancestors from the Pacific, Bornival, 2021, p. 169, n° U1-7



Exhibited

New York, American Museum of Natural History, Faces and Figures. Pacific Island Art from the Collection of Jay C. Leff, janvier - mai 1965

Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Art d’Océanie, d’Afrique et d’Amérique. Récentes acquisitions. Collection Barbier-Müller, 1er juin - 31 octobre 1977

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, Mona Bismarck American Center, 5000 ans de figures humaines. Cent regards sur les collections Barbier-Mueller, 18 septembre - 2 décembre 2000

Riehen, Fondation Beyeler, Visual Encounters. Africa, Oceania, and Modern Art/Bildgewaltig. Afrika, Ozeanien und die Moderne, 25 janvier - 25 mai 2009



Further details

Uli figure, New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
Medium:Shell, Wood
Place of origin:Papua New Guinea
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