Archaeology and the other in the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva. A Middle Sepik hook that once belonged to the famous dealer Pierre Loeb will certainly attract connaisseurs with its abstract construction and rounded forms in which are housed a multitude of representations of spirits and birds. Artworks from several other private collections as well as that of the Art Institute of Chicago will round out this sale, which is unquestionably the finest that Christie’s has staged in many years. AFRICAN AND OCEANIC ART SALE Brussels—Auction house Native will hold a sale on June 8 at 3 p.m. at 32 Rue aux Laines, featuring an important group of Oceanic and African objects. The majority of the pieces will be African and will include a Dogon altar element that may date from the sixteenth century, several Dan masks that illustrate the finesse of Côte d’Ivoire art, and a collection of Congolese fly whisks assembled between 1949 and 1960. Oceanic objects offered will among other things include a New Zealand Maori hei-tiki pendant from a French collection and an important ensemble of lime spatulas from the W. D. Webster Collection, some of which were collected around 1860 by Bishop Patterson. The artworks in the auction will be on view as of June 4. ART in motion A PROMISING SALE Paris—The sale on June 19 at Christie’s in Paris is a notto be-missed event. One hundred seventeen lots will be dispersed, among which are masterpieces from the collection of Celeste and Armand Bartos, such as the notable Baga Serpent from Guinea, collected in situ in 1957 by Hélène and Henri Kamer. A selection of fifteen masterpieces from the prestigious Jolika Collection of New Guinea art, gathered over more than forty years by John and Marcia Friede and housed today in the Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco, will also be on sale. Lovers of Oceanic art will doubtless take advantage of this exceptional opportunity to buy works of a quality rarely seen on the art market today, and the bids promise to soar for the most important piece of all: a Biwat (Mundugamor) ceremonial house finial figure from the people of the Middle Sepik in the Yuat River region. Only two other examples of the same type are known, one in the Cambridge Museum of Art and ABOVE: Group of lime spatulas. Papua New Guinea. © Native. LEFT: Hook. Blackwater River, Papua New Guinea. Est.: 250,000–350,000 euros. © Christie’s Images, Ltd., 2013. FAR LEFT: Reliquary guardian head. Betsi Fang, Gabon. Est.: 300,000–500,000 euros. LEFT AND BELOW: Yoke and serpent. Baga, Guinea. Est: 400,000–800,000 (left) and 800,000–1,200,000 euros (below). To be offered at Christie’s, Paris, on June 19, 2013.
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