Paris, 5 May 2013
On 19 May 2013, Christie’s Paris will be organising a sale devoted to African and Oceanic art.
117 lots will be on offer, estimated between €3.7m and €5.9m, including numerous pieces issued from the Celeste and Armand Bartos Collection. Among the highlights of the sale, let us mention an iconic Baga serpent from the Republic of Guinea, estimated between €800,000 and €1.2m; a Fang Head from Gabon, issued from the Charles Ratton Collection, estimated between €300,000 and €500,000.
Bidders will also be able to attend the dispersion of the Jolika Collection, built throughout the course of four decades by Marcia and John Friede and comprised of over 300 works: it is deemed one of the most important New Guinean art collections.
A selection of fourteen items of African art will be offered by the Art Institute of Chicago, with for instance a Baga D’mba headdress, estimated between €400,000 and €800,000.
A major Canadian collection will put on offer Royal Baham from Cameroon, a Commemorative Figurative Throne, created for King (Fon) Kamwa Mars, circa 1930, estimated between €250,000 and €300,000.
Eventually, a Dogon feminine figure issued from the Jacob Epstein Collection, exhibited twice at the New York Museum of Modern Art, estimated between €300,000 and €500,000, will be on offer.