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Auction 01 February 2023 African and Oceanic Art - Bruxelles

Bid on the lot list Lempertz : 01 February 2023 - Bruxelles - Bruxelles

African and Oceanic Art

Wednesday 01 February 2023 - 14:00 (CET) - Live
6, rue du Grand-Cerf - B-1000 Bruxelles, Belgique
Lempertz, Lempertz (Bruxelles)
African and Oceanic Art
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Lot n° 1 

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THREE IFUGAO SPOONS Luzon, Philippines Selections from the Seymour and Alyce Lazar Collection African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian art dominated every room in Seymour and Alyce Lazar’s Spanish-style home in Palm Springs where museum curators, interested...

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Lot n° 2 

SEPIK LADLE Zogari Village, Manam...

SEPIK LADLE Zogari Village, Manam Island, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea 64 cm. long Provenance Peter Hallinan, Broadbeach, Queensland Todd Barlin, Sydney Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs, acquired from the above in February 1995

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Lot n° 3 

MOZAMBIQUE SPOON Dated 1898 25.5...

MOZAMBIQUE SPOON Dated 1898 25.5 cm. high Provenance Phillips, London, 7 December 1999, lot 150 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 4 

SOUTHERN AFRICA SPOON 32 cm. high Provenance Seymour...

SOUTHERN AFRICA SPOON 32 cm. high Provenance Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 5 

KULANGO SPOON Ivory Coast 27.5...

KULANGO SPOON Ivory Coast 27.5 cm. high Provenance Christie’s, Amsterdam, 24 May 2000, lot 23 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs Exhibitions Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, "Götter Geister Ahnen. Afrikanische Skulpturen in deutschen Privatsammlungen im Museum...

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Lot n° 6 

DAN SPOON Ivory Coast 42 cm. high Provenance Julius...

DAN SPOON Ivory Coast 42 cm. high Provenance Julius Carlebach (1909-1964), New York, 1954 John Giltsoff, (1947-2014), London/New York/Girona, 1977 Robert and Jean Shoenberg, St. Louis Christie's, New York, 14 November 2008, lot 3 Seymour Lazar, Palm...

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Lot n° 7 

ROTSE SPOON Zambia 35 cm. long Provenance Phillips,...

ROTSE SPOON Zambia 35 cm. long Provenance Phillips, London, 7 December 1999, lot 151 (part lot) Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 8 

BIJOGO SPOON Guinea Bissau 26.5...

BIJOGO SPOON Guinea Bissau 26.5 cm. high Provenance Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 9 

PAPUAN GULF COCONUT SPOON Papua...

PAPUAN GULF COCONUT SPOON Papua New Guinea 13 cm. high Provenance Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 10 

GURO MASK Ivory Coast 40.5 cm....

GURO MASK Ivory Coast 40.5 cm. high Provenance Loudmer, Paris, 26 November 1983, lot 152 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 11 

FANTE ASAFO FLAG Ghana 87 x 150...

FANTE ASAFO FLAG Ghana 87 x 150 cm. Provenance Probably Peter Adler, London Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 12 

FANTE ASAFO FLAG Ghana 82 x 154...

FANTE ASAFO FLAG Ghana 82 x 154 cm. Provenance Probably Peter Adler, London Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 13 

FANTE ASAFO FLAG Ghana 86 x 121...

FANTE ASAFO FLAG Ghana 86 x 121 cm. Provenance Probably Peter Adler, London Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 14 

BAULE HEDDLE PULLEY Ivory Coast 16...

BAULE HEDDLE PULLEY Ivory Coast 16 cm. high Provenance Harold Rome (1908-1993), New York, no.168, purchased in Paris, 1959 Ben Heller, New York, acquired from the above in the 1970s Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 1983, lot 84 Sotheby's, New York,...

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Lot n° 15 

THREE HEDDLE PULLEYS Ivory Coast...

THREE HEDDLE PULLEYS Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso 16 to 19 cm. high Provenance from left to right – Mossi heddle pulley with pierced finial Josef Herman, London Christie’s, London, 22 June 1981, lot 80 Christie’s, Amsterdam, 12 December 2000, lot 57 Seymour...

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Lot n° 16 

LOBI FEMALE FIGURE Burkina Faso/Ivory...

LOBI FEMALE FIGURE Burkina Faso/Ivory Coast/Ghana Cf. Fagaly, W., "Ancestors of Congo Square. African Art in the New Orleans Museum of Art", 2011, p.75, fig.30, for a figure almost certainly by the same hand, acquired by the New Orleans Museum of Art...

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Lot n° 17 

LOBI STOOL by Sikire Kambire (1896-1963) Gaoua,...

LOBI STOOL by Sikire Kambire (1896-1963) Gaoua, Burkina Faso 59.5 cm. long Provenance Helena Rubinstein, New York Parke-Bernet, New York, 21 April 1966, lot 94 Frieda and Milton Rosenthal, Harrison, NY Arte Primitivo, New York, 1 December 2008, lot...

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Lot n° 18 

BIJOGO CEREMONIAL SPEAR Guinea...

BIJOGO CEREMONIAL SPEAR Guinea Bissau 180 cm. long Provenance João Pinto Ribeiro, Lisbon Sotheby’s, New York, 22 November 1998, lot 361 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 19 

AKAN COMB Ghana 20.5 cm. high Provenance Sotheby's,...

AKAN COMB Ghana 20.5 cm. high Provenance Sotheby's, London, 3 December 1984, lot 128 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 20 

BAULE COMB Ivory Coast 21 cm....

BAULE COMB Ivory Coast 21 cm. long Provenance Ben Heller, New York Sotheby’s, New York, 1 December 1983, lot 67 Sotheby’s, New York, 16 May 1985, lot 90 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 21 

IGALA MASK Nigeria 25.5 cm. high Provenance Pierre...

IGALA MASK Nigeria 25.5 cm. high Provenance Pierre Robin, Paris Cecilia and Irwin Smiley, New York Sotheby’s, New York, 17 May 2002, lot 98 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs Exhibitions "Discoveries: African Art from the Smiley Collection, Krannert Art...

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Lot n° 22 

LOBI MALE FIGURE Burkina Faso/Ivory...

LOBI MALE FIGURE Burkina Faso/Ivory Coast/Ghana 110.5 cm. high Provenance James Willis Gallery, San Francisco 1982 or 1988 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 23 

YORUBA BOWL FOR IFA DIVINATION agere...

YORUBA BOWL FOR IFA DIVINATION agere ifa from Owo, Nigeria William Fagg writing about the present lot states: “This beautiful agere ifa might be from almost anywhere in Yorubaland, so well does it conform to the canons of Yoruba taste, but it is fortunate...

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Lot n° 24 

BAULE MASK Ivory Coast 40.5 cm....

BAULE MASK Ivory Coast 40.5 cm. high Provenance Sotheby’s, London, 25-26 June 1984, lot 237 Peter Adler, London Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 25 

YORUBA SHRINE FIGURE Nigeria Cf....

YORUBA SHRINE FIGURE Nigeria Cf. Auld, I. et al., "Nigerian Traditional Sculpture", Cardiff, 1974, fig.49, for a similar figure from the Ian Auld collection. Such figures were used on Shango shrines in the Oshogbo area. 43 cm. high Provenance Peter...

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Lot n° 26 

YORUBA GELEDE MASK Nigeria/Benin 38...

YORUBA GELEDE MASK Nigeria/Benin 38 cm. long Provenance Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 27 

MOSSI FEMALE FIGURE Ouagadougou...

MOSSI FEMALE FIGURE Ouagadougou region, Burkina Faso 42.5 cm. high Provenance Henri Kamer (1927-1992), Cannes/New York James Willis Gallery, San Francisco Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs, acquired from the above 20 December 1982 Exhibitions Brussels, Studio...

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Lot n° 28 

YORUBA EGUNGUN MASK Nigeria William...

YORUBA EGUNGUN MASK Nigeria William Fagg, writing in the Christie catalogue from 1980 states: "This is a rare type of mask for the Egungun Society (mainly concerned with the cult of the dead), used in the Ibadan-Oyo area." 33 cm. long Provenance Cornelis...

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Lot n° 29 

BANGWA SEATED FIGURE Cameroon 54.5...

BANGWA SEATED FIGURE Cameroon 54.5 cm. high Provenance Galerie Ratton-Hourdé, Paris Christie’s, Paris, 20 June 2006, lot 166 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 30 

FANG FIGURE Gabon 35 cm. high Provenance Charles...

FANG FIGURE Gabon 35 cm. high Provenance Charles Ratton, Paris André Derain, Paris Sydney Burney, London, 1943 Arthur Rothenberg (1918-2013), New York, acquired from the above in 1943 Sotheby’s, New York, 20 January 1982, lot 242 Sotheby’s, New York,...

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Lot n° 31 

KOTA RELIQUARY FIGURE Gabon 48.2...

KOTA RELIQUARY FIGURE Gabon 48.2 cm. high Provenance Collected by a former Governor General of the A.E.F. in 1935 Loudmer, Paris, 22 June 1984, lot 60 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 32 

MBALA ADZE Democratic Republic...

MBALA ADZE Democratic Republic of the Congo 34.5 cm. long Provenance Walter Power, an engineer for Unilever in the Belgian Congo, collected between 1913 and 1934 Christie’s, South Kensington, 25 March 1986, lot 443 Christie’s, Paris, 12 June 2003, lot...

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Lot n° 33 

LUBA FEMALE FIGURE Democratic Republic...

LUBA FEMALE FIGURE Democratic Republic of the Congo 33 cm. high Provenance Christie’s, Amsterdam, 12 May 1998, lot 20 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 34 

KOTA RELIQUARY FIGURE Gabon 49...

KOTA RELIQUARY FIGURE Gabon 49 cm. high Provenance Maurice Bonnefoy, Paris/New York, no.1915 Christie’s, Amsterdam, 24 May 2000, lot 93 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 35 

LUMBO HEAD Gabon 53.5 cm. high Provenance Anuschka...

LUMBO HEAD Gabon 53.5 cm. high Provenance Anuschka Menist, Haarlem, The Netherlands Sotheby’s, New York, 29-30 April 1983, lot 46 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 36 

FANG RELIQUARY HEAD Gabon 35.5...

FANG RELIQUARY HEAD Gabon 35.5 cm. high Provenance Sotheby’s, London, 28-30 November 1983, lot 185 Possibly Merton Simpson (1928-2013), New York Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 37 

KOTA RELIQUARY FIGURE Gabon 64.5...

KOTA RELIQUARY FIGURE Gabon 64.5 cm. high Provenance Eric Estorick (1913-1993), founder of the Grosvenor Gallery, London Christie's, New York, 16 November 1995, lot 137 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 38 

LUBA STOOL Democratic Republic...

LUBA STOOL Democratic Republic of the Congo 33 cm. high Provenance Mr and Mrs Schepens Christie’s, 1 December 1993, lot 74 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs The stool was collected in the Belgian Congo in the 1920s together with the Songye stool sold by...

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Lot n° 39 

PENDE MASK Democratic Republic...

PENDE MASK Democratic Republic of the Congo 24.5 cm. high Provenance Saul and Marsha Stanoff, Tarzana, CA Marcia and Irwin Hersey, New York Sotheby’s, New York, 8 May 1989, lot 72 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 40 

HEMBA STOOL Democratic Republic...

HEMBA STOOL Democratic Republic of the Congo 48 cm. high Provenance Robert V. Berg, San Diego Sotheby’s, New York, 29-30 April 1983, lot 62 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 41 

PENDE CUP Democratic Republic of...

PENDE CUP Democratic Republic of the Congo 9.5 cm. high Provenance Stéphen Chauvet, Paris Merton Simpson, New York Sotheby’s, New York, 15 November 1985, lot 116 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 42 

CHOKWE MASK Angola/Democratic Republic...

CHOKWE MASK Angola/Democratic Republic of the Congo 29 cm. high Provenance Mrs. Leukers, Belgium Sotheby's, London, 27 October 1980, lot 153 Sotheby’s, New York, 23 October 1982, lot 314 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 43 

LUBA STOOL Democratic Republic...

LUBA STOOL Democratic Republic of the Congo 46 cm. high Provenance Private Collection, New York Christie’s, London, 17 June 1980, lot 276 James Willis Gallery, San Francisco Bonhams, New York, 12 November 2014, lot 301 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs Literature Gillon,...

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Lot n° 44 

KUBA BOX AND COVER Democratic Republic...

KUBA BOX AND COVER Democratic Republic of the Congo A-672 painted in white 37.5 cm. wide Provenance Jean Willy Mestach, Brussels Harold Rome, New York, acquired from the above in 1965 Marc and Denyse Ginsberg, New York Sotheby’s, New York, 2 December...

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Lot n° 45 

SONGYE STOOL Democratic Republic...

SONGYE STOOL Democratic Republic of the Congo The base inscribed 246./RB.84 in white and RB38 in red, typed label C.86 and 54.145.86 in red 40 cm. high Provenance Raoul Blondiau (b.1878), photographer, Brussels Alan Wurzburger (1901-1963), Maryland The...

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Lot n° 46 

NINE CHOKWE COMBS Angola/Democratic...

NINE CHOKWE COMBS Angola/Democratic Republic of the Congo 8 to 12.5 cm. high Provenance Christie’s, 29 May 2001, lot 131, for eight of the combs Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 47 

ROTSE LARGE BOWL AND COVER Zambia 52...

ROTSE LARGE BOWL AND COVER Zambia 52 cm. long Provenance Reputedly Lt.Gen. A.H.L.F. Pitt Rivers, Farnham, Dorset John Hewett, London Peter Adler, London Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs, acquired from the above in December 1986

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Lot n° 48 

SHONA KNIFE AND SHEATH Zimbabwe 47.5...

SHONA KNIFE AND SHEATH Zimbabwe 47.5 cm. long Provenance Christie's, London, 28 November 1983, lot 236 Seymour Lazar, Palm Springs

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Lot n° 49 

TSONGA STAFF Southern Africa Cf....

TSONGA STAFF Southern Africa Cf. Nettleton, A. et al., "Art and Ambiguity: Perspectives on the Brenthurst Collection of Southern African Art", Johannesburg, 1991, p.30, pl.21 79.5 cm. high Provenance Purchased in Brussels in the 1960s Sotheby’s, New...

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Lot n° 50 

SOUTH-EAST AFRICA FEMALE FIGURE Old...

SOUTH-EAST AFRICA FEMALE FIGURE Old accession numbers “173” painted on upper chest and on back of neck and "56.106" on inside bottom of left leg It is not known when or from whom Seymour Lazar purchased this old and rare figure. It bears the painted...

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