MARCHÉ de l’art NATIVE Brussels—The auction house called Native is returning with renewed strength after being absent for the last year. It will be showing at its new location at 5 rue de Ruysbroeck on the Place de la Justice, where it is planning to hold two sales a year. It has also announced the launch of an online bidding platform, which should be operational in the fi rst week of December. Its winter sale will take place on January 23, 2016, and collectors will be offered about 100 lots, which will include a group 26 of Côte d’Ivoire works from several French collections. One of the sale’s highlights will be a Songye sculpture from the Democratic Republic of Congo, collected in 1946 by a Belgian colonial administrator and owned by his family ever since. SOTHEBY’S Paris—Sotheby’s December 2 sale will include eightyfour exceptional lots arranged in three groups according to the collections from which they derive. The core of the sale, some of which was shown during the preview in Paris held during Parcours des Mondes in September, consists of works from West Africa, Cameroon, and Oceania from the René and Odette Delenne Collection. The most eagerly awaited pieces in the sale are undoubtedly the well-known Grasslands Batoufam royal couple, fi rst documented in the 1920s and shown at the 1988 Utotombo exhibition at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. Respected for their unerring taste in African art, the Delennes were equally sophisticated collectors of Oceanic art, as the spiritual Andio clan fi gure collected in the village of Kopar in the Sepik River Delta area of Papua New Guinea clearly demonstrates. The second part of the sale is made up of African works from the Murray Frum Collection, highlights of which include an important Baga shoulder mask from Guinea and a Luba fi gural staff from DR Congo. A variety of “various owner” pieces round out the sale. Many of the works offered, such as a sumptuous Ndassa Kota that TOP LEFT: Interior of the new space for Michel Thieme Tribal Art. LEFT: Male fi gure. Songye, DR Congo. To be offered by Native, Brussels, on January 23, 2016. ABOVE: Andio clan fi gure (detail). Kopar village, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea. Ex René and Odette Delenne. To be offered at Sotheby’s, Paris, on December 2, 2015. Est. 150,000– 200,000 euros. TOP RIGHT: Reliquary guardian fi gure (detail). Kota (Ndassa), Gabon. To be offered at Sotheby’s, Paris, on December 2, 2015. Est. 180,000– 250,000 euros. NEW SPACE Amsterdam—Michel Thieme Tribal Art is now hosting visitors at its new location at Weteringstraat 45 in Amsterdam. A beautiful gabled display window on the street opens onto a multilevel interior, the walls of which alternate between stone and smooth plaster, creating different ambiences to counterpoint the displays. Thieme’s gallery has distinguished itself with shows that evoke the fl avor of the curiosity cabinets of the past, while still displaying a twenty-fi rst-century aesthetic sensibility. We hope that this move will help raise the profi le of this interesting gallery.
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