ART IN MOTION 28 the elegance and refi nement of which have resulted in its being featured in a number of publications and exhibitions. The most recent of these was Les Maîtres de la Sculpture de Côte d’Ivoire at the Rietberg Museum and the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in 2015. Some twenty lots will be Oceanic works, and ten of those are from the collection of Belgian artist Berend Hoekstra. Among these is an important New Caledonian mask and fi ne Marquesas Islands u’u club formerly in the James Hooper Collection. Finally, if a refi ned aesthetic is inscribed in the DNA of this auction house, an awareness of the effi cacy of surprise is every bit as much so. As we close this edition, were were told that a major but unspecifi ed artwork may be added to the lots to be offered in this Paris sale. The mystery is on. Millon PARIS—The auction house Millon has announced that it will hold a sale of traditional objects from Africa, Oceania, and the Pre-Columbian Americas on June 12 at the Hôtel Drouot. It will feature 150 lots from various private European collections.Interested parties can obtain the catalog for the sale by contacting Millon or by checking their website. LEFT: Club, u’u. Marquesas Islands. Ex James Hooper, Arundel; Berend Hoekstra, Brussels. To be offered by Sotheby’s, Paris, on 21 June 2017, est. 50,000– 70,000 euros. ABOVE RIGHT: Power figure. Kongo-Vili, DR Congo. Ex Herbert and Nancy Baker, Chicago/ Los Angeles. To be offered by Sotheby’s, Paris, on 21 June 2017, est. 100,000– 150,000 euros. RIGHT: Mask. Kanak, New Caledonia. Ex Berend Hoekstra, Brussels. To be offered by Sotheby’s, Paris, on 21 June 2017, est. 70,000– 100,000 euros. Sotheby’s PARIS —This coming June 21, Sotheby’s will hold a sale dedicated to the arts of Africa and Oceania. Fewer than eighty lots will be offered, in keeping with the strategy shared by prestigious auction houses over recent years of offering less material, but with every lot rigorously selected for quality. An indicator of the success of this approach has been the low percentage of unsold lots at these sales. The works that will be offered this time address all tastes. Representative of a wide variety of artistic traditions, ranging from West Africa to Polynesia by way of New Ireland, together they are illustrative of striking and beautifully executed sculptural solutions and evince complete mastery of the materials they were made of, be it wood, clay, beads, cowrie shells, or any of an innumerable array of other materials. The arts of Africa will be represented by about fi fty works, including historically signifi cant artworks that art afi cionados will immediately recognize. Among them are a remarkable Hemba fi gure, a rare Tabwa royal statue, and a Kongo-Vili fi gure with a raised arm from the Herbert Baker Collection that was featured in the exhibition of art from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Baker in 1966–1967 at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Also prominent in the sale are an Ngbaka mask that was published in Les Arts à Paris in 1919 and a Yaure mask with a small fi gure atop it,
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