has worked with Haas for many years, will now head the department. HERITAGE Dallas—Heritage Auctions will be offering important selections from longtime southern California collector Robert Berg as well as the private collection from the estate of Liz Claiborne and Arthur Ortenberg in its July 8 American Indian, tribal, and Pre-Columbian art Signature Auction. The Robert V. Berg Collection of African sculpture is composed of the 100 top items from the fi fty-year collection of this respected California specialist. Items range from Teotihuacán antiquities to a pair of large Cameroon house posts. Items from the estate of Liz Claiborne and Arthur Ortenberg span thirty lots and are led by a Waja shoulder mask. Art from the Americas completes the sale, with the star lot being a rare Northwest Coast feast bowl in the form of a totemic bird. BRANT MACKLEY Santa Fe—This summer, longtime dealer Brant Mackley is opening a new downtown gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His Pennsylvania showroom, which he has run for many years, remains open by appointment, but the new Santa Fe gallery will have hours on Wednesday and Friday and by appointment during other days of the week. A wide selection of historic North American Indian art will be offered along with choice selections of Oceanic, Nepalese, and African tribal art. in both American Indian and ethnographic material, ensuring that collectors at every level will experience more than 100 well-curated, high-quality displays. The show will be held August 12–15 at the Santa Fe Convention Center, with an opening reception on the evening of the twelfth. BONHAMS San Francisco—Bonhams is planning the most extensive sale of Native American art in the history of its department. Held over two days, June 6 and 7, 2016, some 800 lots will be offered. Offerings include an unusually fi ne group of historic and prehistoric Southwestern ceramics, an extensive selection of Navajo weavings and Hopi kachinas, and some interesting and rare items from the Eastern Woodlands, all in addition to jewelry, beadwork, masks, baskets, articles of clothing, and works by contemporary artists. Highlights include a rare and fi ne Second Phase Navajo chief’s blanket and a fi ne Haida effi gy grease bowl with bird and sea creature motifs. This is the fi nal sale to be headed by longtime department specialist Jim Haas. Ingmars Lindbergs, who ART in motion ABOVE: Second Phase chief’s blanket. Navajo, Arizona. 19th century. Wool. 140 x 155 cm. To be offered at Bonhams, San Francisco, on June 7, 2016. Est. $80,000–$120,000. ABOVE RIGHT: Effi gy bowl. Haida, British Columbia. Wood. L: 22.9 cm. To be offered at Bonhams, San Francisco, on June 6, 2016. Est. $15,000–$25,000. BELOW: Shoulder mask. Waja, northern Nigeria. Ex Sotheby’s, New York, 2002. Wood, metal. H: 114.3 cm. To be offered at Heritage, Dallas, on July 8, 2016. Est. $30,000–$40,000. RIGHT: Feast bowl. Probably Nootka, British Columbia. C. 1800. Wood. L: 47.6 cm. Ex Leendert Van Lier, Amsterdam. To be offered at Heritage, Dallas, on July 8, 2016. Est. $50,000–$70,000.
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