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ART in motion the sale is tentatively scheduled for May 10, 2016, but interested parties should confi rm the date on Christie’s website as the sale draws closer. 44 ABOVE: Maternity fi gure by the Master of Kasadi. Kongo-Yombe, DR Congo. Ex Daniel and Marian Malcolm. Wood. H: 27.5 cm. To be offered at Sotheby’s, New York, on May 7, 2016, est. $2,000,000–3,000,000. LEFT: Djenné male and female couple. Inland Niger River Delta, Mali. Terracotta. H: 25 cm. To be offered at Sotheby’s, New York, on May 7, 2016, est. $300,000–500,000. RIGHT: Ancestor fi gure. Takuu Atoll, ARB, Papua New Guinea. Wood. H: 45.7 cm. To be offered at Bonhams, Los Angeles, on May 11, 2016. Estimate upon request. BELOW: Male ancestor fi gure. Mbole, DR Congo. Ex Daniel and Marian Malcolm. Wood, pigment. H: 54.5 cm. To be offered at Sotheby’s, New York, on May 7, 2016, est. $1,200,000–1,800,000. and highlight visual affi nities. Some of the top lots from the sale will include an important and archaic Baule female fi gure attributed to the hand of the Rockefeller Master, the only other known example of which is the notable seated male fi gure at the Metropolitan Museum; a unique Dan Mask partially composed of fi ber binding, formerly in the Helena Rubinstein Collection; and an important Senufo Poro society bird fi gure collected by Fr. Michel Convers. As we go to press, MALCOLM AT SOTHEBY’S New York—Dr. Marian Malcolm and her late husband, Dr. Daniel Malcolm (1929–2015), acquired their fi rst piece of African art in 1966 and spent the following decades building a collection of outstanding breadth and quality, acquiring works in the American market and also during their travels in Europe. The couple brought a refi ned and scholarly approach to collecting, drawing on a deep, personal connection to the universal humanity of art as expressed by the sculptors of classical Africa. The Malcolms were exdialog tremely generous in their support of museums and academic institutions, frequently loaning works from their collection to many of the most prestigious museum exhibitions of the last several decades. Selected works from this notable collection will be offered in an international two-part sale series in New York and Paris this spring beginning with twelve lots to be offered on May 7 in New York and followed by another twelve lots of equal caliber to be offered on June 22 in Paris. Each of the two selections is intended to represent a cross section true to the exceptional quality and breadth of the Malcolm Collection as a whole. Overall, the series is expected to fetch in excess of $10 million. Also on May 7, Sotheby’s will hold its annual auction of African, Oceanic, and Pre-Columbian art, this year during the height of the auction season in New York. The sale will be led by a monumental and historic uli fi gure from New Ireland. Dating to the eighteenth century or earlier, this statue has been in a private collection for more than thirty-fi ve years and was previously in the collections of Charles Ratton and Arthur Speyer. Also on offer will be a carefully curated range of fi ne classical African art, featuring selections from American and European private collections. BONHAMS Los Angeles—Bonhams will hold its spring sale of African and Oceanic art at its Los Angeles location on May 11, 2016. Highlights include a private collection of Hawaiian art that has been off the market and in storage for several decades. It features the fi nest selection of Hawaiian bowls ever to appear on the market, including several from the personal collection of Irving Jenkins, the renowned scholar of Hawaiian bowls, as well as other examples with royal provenance. A special section will be devoted to rare works from the Polynesian outliers, including an extremely rare ancestral fi gure from the Takuu Atoll, a small and remote island near the Solomon Islands and one of the last islands in the Pacifi c to be culturally transformed by missionaries in the early twentieth century. LEFT: Poro society bird. Senufo, possibly Tawara village, Korhogo, Savanes, Côte d’Ivoire. Collected by Fr. Michel Convers. Wood. H: 121.9 cm. To be offered at Christie’s, New York, in early May 2016, est. $400,000–600,000.


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