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OCEANIC ART

 

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Ancestor Figure, Uli
New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

Wood, pigments, chalk, black Parinarium Laurinum nut paste, shells, coconut fibres

Mid-19th century
110cm

Provenance:
Serge Brignoni, Bern;
Julius Carlebach, New York,
Faith-Dorian and Martin Wright, New York, (acquired from the above on January 4, 1967)

Published:
Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, Uli: Powerful Ancestors from the Pacific, Bornival, 2021




Serge Brignoni photographed circa 1930 with the Uli


 price on request







Feather money roll or currency Tevau
Santa Cruz Islands, Temotu Province, Solomon Islands

Feathers, material, bark, shells, bush string
Late 19th century to early 20th century
width as shown 90cm

Provenance:
private collection Melbourne


Ancient stone carved pre-contact ancestral hooked spirit figure, Nggwalndu
Abelam, Roma region, Eastern Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea

Wood, Pigments
19th century
153cm

Provenance :
- Dr. George Kennedy Collection (1919- 1980), collected by him in Abelam area between 1962 and 1964.
- Christie's sale, Los Angeles, 1981, lot 78.
- Milton Arno Leof Collection.
- Collection Nadine Vinot-Postry, Cuernavaca.

 price on request




Bowl
Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, PNG

Wood, natural resin
19th century
60cm

Provenance:
Collection Edith Hafter (1911-2001) Solothurn, Switzerland.


price on request






Club, patu onewa
Maori, New Zealand

Stone
18th century
30.5cm

Provenance:
Collection Monique and Ismar Gosselin, France

price on request





House of Monique and Ismar Gosselin showing Patu on wall. Monique and Ismar Gosselin asked
Architect, polemicist and theoretician Mr.
Claude Parent to build there family home just outside Paris in the 1950s.
Claude Parent was the first person in France to make a sharp epistemological break with modernism, beginning in the mid 1950s







Bowl
Society Islands, Polynesia

Wood, natural native fiber repairs
Early 19th century
46cm

Provenance:
Private collection, New Zealand
 


price on request






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