Open sale

In our depot in Wurzburg you can find tribal art from past auctions - more than 506 objects from all continents and from European collections, which you can directly acquire at the minimum price.

See for yourself  in our online open sale catalogue, or visit us in our auction house in Wurzburg. We look forward to helping you!

"Sande" society helmet mask "ndoli jowel"
Lot: 3043198

Sierra Leone, Mende

Standing female figure
Lot: 3040983

Côte d'Ivoire, Abron

Marionette "meren"
Lot: 3043986

Mali, Bozo

3050392
Provenance Size Price
H: 4.8 inch 500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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René and Maud Garcia, Paris, France H: 16.9 inch 1200 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3050385
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René and Maud Garcia, Paris, France H: 22.4 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan-Wobe
3050368
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Dr. Engels, Liberia / Ivory Coast (coll. on site until 1954)
Udo Petry, Hohnhorst, Germany
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 25 September 1999, Lot 133

Engels worked as a Medical Practitioner in Liberia and Ivory Coast, where he acquired the most pieces of his collection in situ. His son extended the collection until 1967, when finally in 1998 the whole collection was sold.
H: 24,5 cm 800 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Joan Didion (1934-2021), New York City, USA

Didion was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe.
H: 41.3 inch (male); 42.1 inch (female) 15000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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American Private Collection H: 31.1 inch 9000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Canadian Private Collection H: 27.2 inch 25000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Mali, Bozo / Mande, Kita Region
3050358
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Private Miami Collection, USA H: 34.3 inch 4000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3050357
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James Willis, San Francisco, USA
Morton Dimondstein, Los Angeles, USA
Dave DeRoche, San Francisco, USA
H: 36.8 inch 8000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Papua New Guinea - Lower Sepik
3050356
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Bonhams, New York, November 13, 2007, Lot 2035 H: 8.1 inch 1500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Nigeria, Vere (Verre), Yawam from Lainde
3050355
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Monsieur et Madame T. Collection, 2016
Tajan, Paris, "L'Univers de monsieur et madame T.", 28 September 2016, Lot 32
H: 13.4 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Papua New Guinea - East Sepik Province, Keram River Area
3050345
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Serge Brignoni, Bern, Switzerland H: 16.5 inch 1200 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3050344
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German Collection H: 27.6 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Nigeria, Ibibio / Eket
3050338
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French Collection H: 12.2 inch / 16.5 inch; B: 15 inch 900 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3050337
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H: 10.8 inch 1000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance Size Price
H: 11.8 inch 1000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Nigeria, Igbo / Igala
3050334
Provenance Size Price
H: 8.7 inch 600 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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H: 14.6 inch 600 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Private Collection, Oslo, Norway L: 48.8 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Celeste (1913-2013) & Armand (1910-2005) Bartos, New York City, USA
Christie's, Paris, 19 June 2013, Lot 52
H: 8.1 inch 600 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3050300
Provenance Size Price
French Collection H: 13.8 inch 2200 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Burkina Faso, Bwa / Houndé
3050287
Provenance Size Price
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 24 October 2020, Lot 137
German Private Collection
H: 28.7 inch 1800 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Cameroon Grassfields, Babanki or Kom (Bekom)
3050280
Provenance Size Price
American Private Collection H: 19.3 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Papua New Guinea, East Sepik Province, Middle Sepik, Iatmul
3050279
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Paul Wirz (1892-1955), Zurich / Basel, Switzerland (field-collected in the 1930s)
John & Marcia Friede, Rye, USA

The manufacturer's son Paul Wirz was born in Moscow in 1892. He studied ethnology in Zurich and Basel and graduated in 1920 with a Dr. phil. His dissertation on the Marind-anim people in New Guinea became a standard work in ethnology.

Numerous research and collecting trips as a private scholar took Wirz to North Africa (1912-1913), New Guinea (1915-1931 and 1949-1955, with interruptions), Sardinia, Tunisia, Morocco, West Africa, Spain and the Canary Islands (1932-1934), to India, East and Southeast Asia (1934–1940), the Caribbean (1941–1945), and to Ceylon, now Sri Lanka (1947–1948). In between his travels he worked on his research work. Among other things, he explored the mythical world of the Marind-anim in southern Dutch New Guinea (West Neuguinea). He also devoted research to the Sentani and Gogodara.
H: 15.6 inch 2500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3050271
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Heinrich Dröge, Remseck, Germany H: 3.7 inch & 4.3 inch 300 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Heinrich Dröge, Remseck, Germany H: 12.2 inch 300 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Hans Marcus (1912-1992), Düsseldorf, Germany D: 1.5 inch; G: 3 Gramm 900 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Hans Marcus (1912-1992), Düsseldorf, Germany H: 21.3 inch; B: 14 inch 600 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Hans Marcus (1912-1992), Düsseldorf, Germany H: 3 inch; B: 4.3 inch 800 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Hans Marcus (1912-1992), Düsseldorf, Germany H: 9.3 inch 800 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Gerhard Asche (1933-2022), Billigheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (vor 1968) H: 6.7 inch; L: 11.4 inch 250 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Austral Islands
3050192
Provenance Size Price
Hellmut Patzer, Silesia, Poland (acquired in the 1st half of the 20th century) L: 66.9 inch 15000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Nigeria / Cameroon, Keaka
3050165
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Alexander Kubetz (1946-2023), Munich, Germany M: 29.5 inch x 21.3 inch 500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Ethiopia, Sidamo, Dorze
3050161
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Alexander Kubetz (1946-2023), Munich, Germany D: 15.2 inch 300 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
India, Naga, Konyak
3050142
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Herbert Hamak, Hammelburg, Germany H: 22.4 inch (figure); M: 31.1 inch x 12.6 inch (panel) 400 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3050141
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Herbert Hamak, Hammelburg, Germany H: 21.3 inch 200 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Nigeria, Yoruba
3050140
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Herbert Hamak, Hammelburg, Germany H: 11.8 inch; B: ca. 20.5 inch 400 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3050136
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German Collection H: 2.8 inch 450 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
3050135
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German Collection H: 9.1 inch 1000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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German Private Collection H: 33.7 inch 2200 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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H: 18.9 inch 1200 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Cameroon, Mambila
3050116
Provenance Size Price
H: 39.4 inch: B: 33.1 inch 1000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
3050114
Provenance Size Price
H: 6.1 inch 2200 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
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Dutch Private Collection H: 2 inch 800 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Papua New Guinea - Yuat River, Biwat
3050103
Provenance Size Price
L: 33.5 inch 1000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Solomon Islands - Rennel Island
3050100
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Hellmut Patzer, Silesia, Poland (acquired in the 1st half of the 20th century) L: 24.6 inch 400 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
South-East Australia
3050099
Provenance Size Price
Hellmut Patzer, Silesia, Poland (acquired in the 1st half of the 20th century) L: ca. 32.7 inch (both) 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Austral Islands
3050094
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Hellmut Patzer, Silesia, Poland (acquired in the 1st half of the 20th century) L: 37.4 inch 1500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Austral Islands
3050093
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Hellmut Patzer, Silesia, Poland (acquired in the 1st half of the 20th century) L: 44.5 inch 2000 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Austral Islands
3050092
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Hellmut Patzer, Silesia, Poland (acquired in the 1st half of the 20th century) L: 59.8 inch 3500 EUR
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance