Bonhams
NEW YORK—A sale of African and Oceanic art will
be held at Bonhams in New York this spring. Among
the varied offerings are an extensively published Kota
reliquary fi gure formerly associated with the Ecole
de pasteurs et d’instituteurs de Kimpese and with
the Swedish Missionary Society Museum in Kingoyi,
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Other highlights
are a Maori hei tiki once owned by Sir Jacob Epstein
and subsequently by Paul Guillaume and a large and
fi ne Bamana fi gure with Carlebach provenance. As we
go to press, the date of the sale has not yet been set,
but it will be in mid May of 2019.
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Femme
TORONTO—JL Phillips Gallery is presenting Femme:
Power of the Female Form from March 3–21, 2019,
at the gallery’s new space in Midtown Toronto. The
show consists of a careful selection of antique African
artworks, sculptures from antiquity, archaeological
fi nds, and works by contemporary woman artists,
including Candace Wilson, Lekha Singh, Margaret
Rinkevich, and Reisha Perlmutter. This is the fi rst in
a series of themed shows that owner Jessica Lindsay
Phillips is planning, some of which will be at her gallery
and others in international pop-up locations.
ABOVE: Beaded dispatch
case with mirror board.
Great Plains, United States.
Commercial leather, glass seed beads,
hide sinew, wood, mirror, brass tacks.
Height of case: 33 cm.
To be offered at Heritage, Dallas, on
June 25, 2019, est. $1,500–2,500.
RIGHT: Mask.
Suku, Democratic Republic
of the Congo.
Wood, vegetal fi ber, pigment.
H: 35.6 cm (excluding raffi a).
To be offered at Heritage, Dallas, on
June 25, 2019, est. $2,000–3,000.
LEFT: Standing female fi gure.
Bamana, Mali.
Wood. H: 60.9 cm.
Ex Bardar Collection; Julius Carlebach,
New York; Bertram and Ruth Malenka
Collection, Massachusetts.
To be offered at Bonhams, New York,
in May of 2019, est. $80,000–
120,000.
ART IN MOTION
ABOVE: Anthropomorphic
pendant, hei tiki.
Maori, New Zealand. C.
1600–1850.
Stone, wax. H: 14.8 cm.
Ex Sir Jacob Epstein, London; Paul
Guillaume, Paris.
To be offered at Bonhams, New York,
in May of 2019, est. $120,000–
160,000.
RIGHT: Milk pail.
Zulu, South Africa. Late 19th
or early 20th century.
Wood. H: 25 cm.
Ex Terence Pethica, United Kingdom.
JL Phillips Gallery, Toronto.
Heritage
DALLAS—Heritage is planning a sale of ethnographic,
American Indian, Pre-Columbian, and tribal art
for June 25 in Dallas and online. As its parameters
suggest, this is a widely varied sale with a range of
offerings, most with relatively low estimates. African
sculpture—including some interesting Dogon posts—
pre-historic Native American pottery and historic period
bead work, and ephemera from Papua New Guinea
are just a few of the categories it touches.