ID 1158358
Lot 32 | Tambour warup
Estimate value
€ 300 000 – 500 000
Détroit de Torrès, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Longueur : 100 cm. (39 3⁄8 in.)
Provenance
Collection Henry Moore Dauncey (1863-1932), Bournemouth
Collection Walsall Council, Walsall, transmis par donation en janvier 1932
Sotheby & Co., Londres, 26 juin 1967, lot 117
Simone de Monbrison (1922-2015), Paris
Collection Monique (1929-2019) et Jean Paul (1930-2016) Barbier-Mueller, Genève, acquis ca. 1968 (inv. n° 4240)
Literature
Monbrison de, S., Catalogue, Paris, avril 1968, n.p., ill.
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. 292 et 293
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. 237, n° 5
Abramovic, N., « Art du détroit de Torrès dans les collections Barbier-Mueller/ Art of the Torres Strait in the Barbier-Mueller Collection », in Arts & Cultures, Genève, 2002, n° 3, p. 236, n° 19
Peltier, P. et al., Ombres de Nouvelle-Guinée. Arts de la grande île d’Océanie dans les collections Barbier-Mueller/Shadows of New Guinea. Art of the Great Island of Oceania from the Barbier-Mueller Collections, Paris, 2006, pp. 231, 348 et 426, n° 120
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. 298-299 et 393
Exhibited
Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Sculpture. Chefs-d’œuvre du musée Barbier-Mueller, septembre 1995
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, Ombres de Nouvelle-Guinée. Arts de la grande île d’Océanie dans les collections Barbier-Mueller, 3 octobre - 25 novembre 2006
Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie. Fleurons du musée Barbier-Mueller, 26 avril - 30 septembre 2007
Genève, Musée Barbier-Mueller, Ombres de Nouvelle-Guinée. Arts de la grande île d’Océanie dans les collections Barbier-Mueller, 20 novembre 2007 - 31 mars 2008
Genève, MEG - Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève, 40 ans du musée Barbier-Mueller - Hors les murs, 23 mars - 31 décembre 2017
Further details
Warup drum, Torres Strait, Papua New Guinea
Medium: | Acrylic glass, Wood, Plastic |
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Place of origin: | Papua New Guinea |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
Medium: | Acrylic glass, Wood, Plastic |
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Place of origin: | Papua New Guinea |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
Address of auction |
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