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Auction 103
2024-11-16

AFRICAN, ASIAN, OCEANIC AND PRE-COLUMBIAN ART
Artworks from the Vienna collection of Erwin Melchardt, art critic, cultural editor, and auction expert. Selected pieces from the collection of Bruno Heimberg, Munich, former restorer of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen and Director of the Doerner Institute. Objects from the collection of Helmut Bruchner, Munich. Pre-Columbian ceramics from the estate of Klaus Kalz, Berlin (Part 2).

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Auction 103
Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Hans Wolf (1917-1993), Zurich, Switzerland
Ursula Nusser, Munich, 2 November 1994, Lot 127
H: 24.2 inch 800 EUR / 1200 EUR
Lot: 152
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Galerie Jahn, Munich, Germany H: 17.5 inch 2000 EUR / 4000 EUR
Lot: 153
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Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
Sotheby's London, 29th June 1987, Lot 143
H: 16.9 inch 2500 EUR / 5000 EUR
Lot: 154
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Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany
Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
Rolf Müller, Munich, Germany (1997)
H: 31.9 inch 4500 EUR / 9000 EUR
Côte d'Ivoire / Ghana, Anyi (Agni) - Sanwi (Krinjabo)
Lot: 155
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Marcel Lheureux, France

Marcel Lheureux was a French medical doctor who traveled in the Agni-Sanwi region in the 1920s, where he developed a great interest in the terracottas found there. He collected a large group of Krinjabo heads and also full figures. In 1932, he deposited a record of his conclusions regarding the terracottas at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris. His collection was probably the largest outside of Africa (Guy van Rijn 2008).
H: 5.9 inch 2500 EUR / 5000 EUR
Côte d'Ivoire / Ghana, Anyi (Agni) - Sanwi (Krinjabo)
Lot: 156
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Hans Wolf (1917-1993), Zurich, Switzerland
Ursula Nusser, Munich, 2 November 1994, Lot 57
H: 12.6 inch 2000 EUR / 4000 EUR
Côte d'Ivoire, Atié (Akye)
Lot: 157
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Ralf Lüders, Stuttgart, Germany H: 16.9 inch 4000 EUR / 8000 EUR
Côte d'Ivoire, Atié (Akye)
Lot: 158
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French Private Collection H: 5.1 inch 3000 EUR / 5000 EUR
Lot: 159
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French Collection L: 10.4 inch 1200 EUR / 2000 EUR
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Lempertz, Cologne, 26 April 2003, Lot 78 H: 11.2 inch 2500 EUR / 5000 EUR
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Lot: 161
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Neumeister, Munich, 8 June 2018, Lot 1002 (here as Ebrie) H: 18.5 inch 2000 EUR / 4000 EUR
Lot: 162
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Lempertz, Brussels, 10 May 2023, Lot 73 H: 15 inch 1500 EUR / 3000 EUR
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Jean-Paul Delcourt, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Samir Borro, Brussels, Belgium
H: 14.8 inch 2500 EUR / 5000 EUR
Lot: 164
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Hans Himmelheber (1908-2003), Heidelberg, Germany (1935)
Carl Kjersmeier (1889-1961), Kopenhagen, Denmark
H: 12.4 inch 5000 EUR / 10000 EUR
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Lot: 165
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Allan Stone, New York, USA H: 28.7 inch 3000 EUR / 5000 EUR
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Belgian Collection H: 10.4 inch 600 EUR / 1200 EUR
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan-Yacouba
Lot: 167
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Arno Henseler, Munich, Germany H: 9.8 inch 800 EUR / 1200 EUR
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan-Gio
Lot: 168
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Merton Simpson (1928-2013), New York, USA
Allan Stone (1932-2006), New York, USA
H: 10.8 inch 1600 EUR / 2000 EUR
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan or Maou (Mau)
Lot: 169
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Allan Stone, New York, USA M: 14.2 inch x 13.4 inch 1500 EUR / 3000 EUR
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Lot: 170
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American Private Collection (coll. ca. 1960-1990)
Family-owned since then

Collected by an American diplomat and ambassador in the 1960-1990s, when he provided charitable medical aid throughout the African continent.
H: 13.4 inch 5000 EUR / 10000 EUR
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Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland
Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
Rudolf Schulz, Hannover, Germany
H: 14.8 inch 1200 EUR / 1500 EUR
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Dorothy Brill Robbins Collection, New York, USA
Private Collection, Connecticut, USA
Arte Primitivo, New York, 15 October 2021, Lot 874 (in a group of two, as Kulango)

Dorothy Brill Robbins was the sister of the well-known Africa collector William Brill (1918-2003). She bought her first Africa object from Anuschka Menist in the early 1980s.
H: 8.3 inch 3000 EUR / 6000 EUR
Côte d'Ivoire, Bété / Wé-Guéré
Lot: 173
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Coll. Iperen, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Karl-Heinz Steffen, Essen, Germany
H: 11 inch 600 EUR / 1200 EUR
Ghana, Akan, Ashanti
Lot: 174
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Rudolf Schulz, Hannover, Germany H: 13.2 inch 450 EUR / 900 EUR
Lot: 175
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Alain Dufour, Saint Maur, France H: 20.1 inch 250 EUR / 500 EUR
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Werner Kißling (1952-2020), Heltersberg, Germany H: 24.4 inch 2000 EUR / 4000 EUR
Nigeria, Benin City, Edo
Lot: 177
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Canadian Private Collection Montreal (collected in the 1950s/60s) H: 8.3 inch 1500 EUR / 3000 EUR
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Fred Tymoshenko, Toronto, Canada H: 16.1 inch 2500 EUR / 5000 EUR
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Jacques Kerchache, Paris, France
Samir Borro, Brussels, Belgium
Austrian Private Collection
H: 8.7 inch 2500 EUR / 5000 EUR
Lot: 180
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Jacques Kerchache (1942-2001), Paris, France
Anne Kerchache, Paris, France
Christie's, Paris, 29 October 2008, Lot 142 (as part of a set of two)
H: 28.7 inch 2000 EUR / 4000 EUR
Nigeria, Igbo - Izzi
Lot: 181
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Bruce Frank, New York, USA
Eric Robertson, New York, USA
H: 6.3 inch; D: 3 inch (mouth opening) 1000 EUR / 2000 EUR
Nigeria, Isoko / Urhobo
Lot: 182
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UK Collection H: 12.8 inch & 12.6 inch 3000 EUR / 5000 EUR
Nigeria, Mbembe-Tigong
Lot: 183
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French Collection H: 29.9 inch 2500 EUR / 5000 EUR
Lot: 184
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Werner Kißling (1952-2020), Heltersberg, Germany H: 25.8 inch 1500 EUR / 3000 EUR
Lot: 185
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Jo de Buck, Brussels, Belgium
André Kirbach, Düssedorf, Germany
H: 18.7 inch 800 EUR / 1500 EUR
Lot: 186
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Serge Trullu, France
German Private Collection
Alfred Weissenegger, Winklarn, Austria
Dorotheum, Vienna, 28 June 2023, Lot 30
H: 19.5 inch 7000 EUR / 15000 EUR
Nigeria, Yoruba, Oyo, Igbuke Style
Lot: 187
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H: 11.6 inch 500 EUR / 1000 EUR
Nigeria, Yoruba, Awori, Otta
Lot: 188
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H: 8.1 inch 450 EUR / 900 EUR
Nigeria, Yoruba, Egbado / Benin, Anago
Lot: 189
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Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 3 November 1981, Lot 121
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 27 February 2016, Lot 419
H: 17.7 inch 600 EUR / 1200 EUR
Nigeria, Yoruba, Ijebu, Ijebu-Ode
Lot: 190
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Hermann Sommerhage, Duisburg, Germany H: 7.1 inch 600 EUR / 1200 EUR
Lot: 191
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Arno Henseler, Munich, Germany H: 20.1 inch 1200 EUR / 2000 EUR
Nigeria, Yoruba
Lot: 192
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H: 5.9 inch 450 EUR / 900 EUR
Lot: 193
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Austrian Private Collection H: 11 inch 400 EUR / 800 EUR
Nigeria, Yoruba-Owo
Lot: 194
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French Private Collection H: 3.1 inch 800 EUR / 1500 EUR
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Bernd Muhlack, Kiel, Germany H: 12.4 inch 800 EUR / 1500 EUR
Lot: 196
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French Private Collection H: 2.4 inch 1800 EUR / 3500 EUR
Cameroon Grassfields, Bamum
Lot: 197
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Gérald & Muriel Minkoff, Geneva, Switzerland H: 17.5 inch 2000 EUR / 4000 EUR
Cameroon Grassfields, Kom (Bekom)
Lot: 198
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German Private Collection L: 25.2 inch 1200 EUR / 2500 EUR
Cameroon, Kundu / Kusu
Lot: 200
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Ketterer Munich, 183. Auktion, Teil I, 17 April 1993, Lot 187 H: 16.9 inch 1500 EUR / 3000 EUR
Cameroon, Namchi
Lot: 201
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Joseph Christiaens, Brussels, Belgium
Brigitte & Wolfgang Bofinger, Stuttgart, Germany
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 18 October 2014, Lot 107
Belgian Private Collection
H: 10.8 inch 1200 EUR / 2000 EUR