Sotheby 12/14/11 Antique African Tribal Oceanic Oceania D'Afrique D'Oceanie

Description

This is a book for the Sotheby’s auction catalog sale held in Paris on December 14, 2011 for Arts D’Afrique et D’Oceanie, covering 99 lots in 133 pages. All lots illustrated in color. Excellent condition. Sotheby’s press release had this to say:
“Three exquisite masks in the auction – the Boa mask (lot 68), the black Punu mask (lot 56) and the Kwele mask (lot 55)) were never meant to be exposed to the public gaze; their beauty and strength were only devoted to the spirits and ancestors. These majestic representations of the male and female form, created by anonymous artists, are joined by a small sculpture of a head by the famed ‘Buli Master’ (lot 62), and by two shrine (couple) sculptures, extraordinary in their artistry and rarity, from a supremely talented Yoruba Nago artist (lots 35 and 36)). Both sculptures are devoted to Shango, the deified fourth king of Oyo-Ile, the city that was the centre of the Oyo Empire in the second half of the 18th century.

From Oceania, comes a rare Rarotonga Staff God, Cook Islands (lot 85). One of only sixteen complete Staff Gods documented in museum or private collections, this sculpture pays tribute to Tangaroa, the creator God.”
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