Top left: Female figure. Lagoon region, Côte d’Ivoire. To be offered at Sotheby’s, London, on March 5–6. Est. £5,000–7,000. Left: Seated figure. Nayarit, Mexico. 100 BC–AD 250. To be offered at Sotheby’s, London, on March 5–6. Est. £5,000–6,000. Above: Group of objects that are part of “Curiosity” at Sotheby’s in Paris. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s/Art Digital Studio. Auctions and Shows 5–6 March 2014 1,000 Ways of Seeing: The Private Collection of the late Stanley J. Seeger Sotheby’s, London www.sothebys.com 14–23 March 2014 TEFAF Maastricht, The Netherlands www.tefaf.com 17 March 2014 Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art Bonhams, New York www.bonhams.com 20–24 March 2014 Sixth Annual Paris Rue Visconti Rue Visconti, Paris 22 March 2014 Tribal Art Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg www.tribal-art-auktion.de 24 March 2014 Tribal Art Dorotheum, Vienna www.dorotheum.com 26 March 2014 Curiosité: Un Regard Moderne Sotheby’s, Paris www.sothebys.com 27–30 March 2014 Pavillon des Arts et du Design Jardin des tuileries, Paris www.pad-fairs.com 28 March 2014 Pre-Columbian Art Binoche et Giquello, Paris www.binocheetgiquello.com 3–6 April 2014 Paris Tribal Paris 6th www.paristribal.com 4 April 2014 American Indian Art Tessier–Sarrou www.tessier-sarrou.com 5 April 2014 West African Bronzes from the Collection of André Blandin Lombrail-Teucquam Saint-Maur-La Varenne 29 April 2014 The William “Billy” Jamieson Collection Waddington’s, Toronto www.waddingtons.ca 14–17 May 2014 Madison Ancient & Tribal Art Arader Gallery, New York http://madisonancientandtribalart.com/ Mid May 2014 AOA New York Art Fair Upper East Side, New York www.aoany.com 15 May 2014 African, Oceanic & Pre-Columbian Art Bonhams, New York www.bonhams.com 17 May 2014 Tribal Art Neumeister, Munich www.neumeister.com 17–18 May 2014 The Amsterdam Trail Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.amsterdamtrail.nl 16 May 2014 The Allan Stone Collection, vol. 2 & African, Oceanic & Pre-Columbian Art Sotheby’s, New York www.sothebys.com 24-26 May 2014 Asia International Arts & Antiques Fair (AIAA) Hongkong, China www.aiaa.com.hk RENDEZVOUS AT SOTHEBY’S Paris—The spirit of the encyclopedic nineteenth-century curiosity cabinets will be revived at Sotheby’s on March 26, with its sale of a wide range of objects that would have delighted collectors of yore. Even so, these objects of natural history, which were assembled in the second half of the last century and housed in a chateau in the Paris area, can also be seen in a modern light. They include a moa skeleton, several fossils, and a pair of Aepyornis maximus eggs. Other curiosities, furniture, Noh theater masks, etc., will round out the selection. Another event of an entirely different nature, also at Sotheby’s in Paris, merits mention. From April 9–17 (but not Sunday the 13th), highlights from the coming sales of African and Oceanic art to be held in May and June in New York and Paris will be on view at the auction house’s Parisian venue, where they will complement an exhibition and sale devoted to contemporary artist Jean-Michel Atlan, who was also a tribal art enthusiast. He is remembered as saying, “Primitive people thought they were making magic when they were making art” (Arts primitifs dans les ateliers d’artistes, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, 1967). London—On March 5 and 6, the collection of the late Stanley J. Seeger will be offered at Sotheby’s in London. Spanning more than 250 million years of history and including objects that belonged to historic personnages, it also includes fine furniture and, among other things, tribal art. New York City—Last autumn, a portion of the massive collection of art of Africa, Oceania, and Indonesia amassed by the late Allan Stone was offered at Sotheby’s in New York City and brought in $11,489,750, just shy of a world record at auction for a single-owner collection of tribal art. On May 16, the second part of the collection will be offered, this time including Pre-Columbian and Native American art in addition to the African material. The sale is led by a monumental Kongo-Yombe nail figure from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (est. in the region of $1 million). Other highlights include a strikingly cubistic Baule gbekre monkey figure from Côte d’Ivoire that is covered with an untouched crusty ritual patina (est. $150,000–250,000), a Songye-Kalebwe power figure by the Master of the Bulbous Copper Eyes (est. $600,000–900,000), another rare Kongo nail figure BELOW: Nail figure. Kongo-Yombe, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ex Allan Stone. To be offered at Sothebys, New York, on May 16, 2014. Est. c. $1 million.
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