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AUCTION news
Top 10 Auction Results
January 2019–June 2019
1) 4,721,000 euros (5,289,975 dollars)
Mask. Baule; Côte d’Ivoire.
Lot 23, Sotheby’s, Paris, 18 June 2019 (Marceau Rivière Collection)
Est: 2,000,000–2,500,000 euros
2) 4,215,000 dollars (3,760,943 euros)
Mask. Songye; DR Congo.
Lot 8, Christie’s, New York, 14 May 2019 (Art of Africa Masterworks)
Est. on request
3) 1,092,500 euros (1,224,168 dollars)
Mask. Baule/Yaure; Côte d’Ivoire.
Lot 66, Sotheby’s, Paris, 18 June 2019 (Marceau Rivière Collection)
Est: 1,000,000–1,500,000 euros
4) 972,500 euros (1,089,706 dollars)
Anthropomorphic ladle. Dan; Côte d’Ivoire.
Lot 19, Sotheby’s, Paris, 18 June 2019 (Marceau Rivière Collection)
Est: 400,000–600,000 euros
5) 850,000 euros
(959,464 dollars)
Moai kavakava fi gure.
Rapa Nui, Polynesia.
Lot 63, Christie’s, 10 April 2019
(Art d’Afrique, d’Océanie et
d’Amérique du Nord)
Est: 700,000–900,000 euros
6) 672,500 euros
(753,550 dollars)
Male fi gure. Baule;
Côte d’Ivoire.
Lot 61, Sotheby’s, Paris, 18 June 2019
(Marceau Rivière Collection)
Est: 600,000–800,000 euros
7) 468,500 euros
(524,964 dollars)
Oracle. Baule; Côte
d’Ivoire.
Lot 13, Sotheby’s, Paris, 18 June 2019
(Marceau Rivière Collection)
Est: 300,000–400,000 euros
8) 372,500 euros (417,394 dollars)
Figural fragment. Djenne; Mali.
Lot 51, Sotheby’s, Paris, 18 June 2019 (Marceau Rivière Collection)
Est: 300,000–400,000 euros
9) 280,000 euros (316,059 dollars)
Mask, tatanua. New Ireland.
Lot 28, Christie’s, 10 April 2019 (Art d’Afrique, d’Océanie et
d’Amérique du Nord)
Est: 50,000–80,000 euros
10) 312,575 dollars (278,438 euros)
Reliquary fi gure. Kota/Ndassa; Gabon
Lot 99, Bonhams, 13 May 2019 (African and Oceanic Art)
Est: 250,000–350,000 dollars
Sales results are listed in the currency of the sale.
Conversions are calculated using the exchange rate
on the date of sale.
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