15 Jul 2010 @ 10:11 AM 

EDITORIAL NOTE: A few pieces but strong selection  and known provenance with a twist of well selected tribes and clients that are educated to get the best quality at the highest prices, these seem to be the rules for success of Sothebys. David Norden

PARIS— Sotheby’s concluded its June sales of Oceanic and African art in Paris on Wednesday, achieving a total of $8,448,741.

Of the 82 lots on offer, 12 works from the collection of Marsha and John Friede spurred a fierce bidding competition, with many pieces exceeding their estimates. The highest-earning work in the sale was an early-19th-century Hembigurea ancestor figure from the Congo, which fetched $1,042,109 above the high estimate of $619,150. This June marks the 50th anniversary of the Congo’s independence.

Other top lots included a 42-inch carved female figure by a craftsman of the Inyai-Ewa People, which earned $685,133; the work had previously been in the collection of Douglas Newton, a former curator, who built The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Another crouching female figure that had been included in the first show of Oceanic art in the U.S., at Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York in 1934, was sold for $476,897, a price that more than doubled the high estimate.

Oceanic art has inspired numerous modern masters such as Paul Klee, Alberto Giacometti, and Pablo Picasso. The sales in New York last month and Paris on Wednesday showed a continued global interest in collecting this category as they achieved strong prices far exceeding the estimates.

A detail of the 19th-century Hembigurea ancestor figure from the Congo that sold for $1,042,109:

Courtesy Sotheby’s

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 18 May 2010 @ 8:43 AM 

Collections Anne et Jacques Kerchache

vente du 13 Juin 2010

Les 12 et 13 juin 2010, Pierre Bergé & associés auront l’honneur de disperser les collections d’Anne et Jacques Kerchache à Drouot Montaigne.

Elles seront représentées en majorité par les Arts Premiers, mais aussi par l’Extrême-Orient, l’Art Contemporain avec des oeuvres de Paul Rebeyrolle, Sam Szafran, par le Surréalisme (Max Ernst), par du mobilier de Designers (Ado Chale, Hervé Van Der Straeten), par une collection d’insectes, de minéraux …

Cet ensemble est avant tout le reflet d’une vie consacrée à la passion des Arts Premiers, mais elle est aussi la manifestation de l’influence des surréalistes dans le choix des objets.

Jacques Kerchache (1942-2001) possédait à la fois la passion de l’oeuvre et le bonheur de la communiquer. Son mentor était Max-Pol Fouchet et ses pairs les surréalistes.
Très jeune, il avait rencontré André Breton et de leurs conversations passionnées était née cette complicité de collectionneurs pour qui l’objet est créateur de mondes.

Jacques Kerchache est à l’origine de l’ouverture du Pavillon des Sessions du Louvre en 2000 à l’initiative du Président de la République Jacques Chirac, qui lui confie alors le projet de concevoir la collection des Arts Premiers.
Jacques Kerchache disparaitra en août 2001, cinq ans avant l’inauguration du musée du quai Branly. Son épouse, Anne Kerchache, en est membre du conseil d’administration.

Née de mère Vietnamienne et de père Sénégalais, Anne a su faire partager à son mari l’âme de l’Afrique noire et celle de l’Asie du Sud-Est.
Sensible à l’intuition capitale qu’elle avait des objets, Jacques Kerchache lui confiait souvent le soin d’acquérir des oeuvres ; grâce à elle, il eut de l’Afrique et de l’Asie une perception complète. Ils partageaient aussi le même plaisir aux montages des expositions, ajustant la présentation de chaque objet, réglant l’implantation des vitrines au millimètre près, relisant les cartels avec la précision et l’exigence qui caractérisaient chacune de leurs interventions.

Devenue Mme Kamal Douaoui, Anne et son époux ouvrent une nouvelle page du livre de leurs passions.

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  5 ventes à Paris et en province avec de l’Art Africain du 16 mars au 20 mars 2010.. liens vers les catalogues en lignes et contact des maison de ventes.

 Cette statue Mumuye tres ancienne sera vendue à Paris

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 02 Sep 2009 @ 8:43 PM 
Important Cameroon Royal Commemorative Male Figure

Important Cameroon Royal Commemorative Male Figure

On the occasion of the 8th annual Parcours des Mondes, Christie’s Paris invites you to preview highlights from our 4 December 2009 sale: African Art: A Private Collection.
Among the works exhibited, an important Cameroon Royal Commemorative Male Figure will be on view.

Champagne Reception and Book Signing for the reprint edition of Provenance by Hermione Waterfield and J.C.H. King

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 10 Aug 2009 @ 8:25 AM 

FROM THE JOHN PERRY COLLECTION A cabinet of curiosities
Tuesday August 18 2009 Auction

John Perry Cabinet

John Perry is recognized as one of New Zealand’s leading authorities on ethnographica, social history, folk art and plenty else besides. John has held senior roles as a director of a public museum to his world famous in New Zealand Helensville emporium Global Village Antiques. A+O is delighted to be able to offer a selection from his vast collection as a ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’. These are in the main rare and unusual smaller gems of folk art, NZ ceramics, photography, Pacificana, artefacts, Oriental pieces and the hard to explain. This will be a catalogue and auction to remember.

Members of this group can read the details see more images and links to the pdf catalog below

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 05 Jul 2009 @ 6:20 AM 

During on of the last auction in Paris this Dan spoon with a perfect  provenance caught my eye:

perfect-provenance-dan-spoon

So why does this spoon have a perfect provenance ?

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Brancusi Sculpture Fetches Record 29.2 Million Euros

By Scott Reyburn

Feb. 23, 2009 ( found at Bloomberg) — A wooden sculpture by Constantin Brancusi sold tonight in Paris for 29.2 million euros ($37.2 million) with fees, a record for the artist’s works at auction, as Christie’s International started its three-day sale of the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge.

Inspired by African tribal sculpture, the 3-foot, 11-inch high modernist work, entitled “Madame L.R. (Portrait de Mme L.R.),” dated 1914-17, is a three-dimensional portrait of the Parisian art enthusiast Leonie Ricou. More »

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