Arts d'Afrique, d'Océanie et des Amériques

Tapa Cloth, Finisterre Mountains, Rai Coast, Madang or Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea

Auction Closed

December 12, 04:12 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

Tapa Cloth, Finisterre Mountains, Rai Coast, Madang or Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea

Height: 55 in (138 cm); width: 21 ½ in (56 cm)

Paul Wirz (1892-1955), Basel, acquired in situ in the 1930s

Thence by descent

Baron Frédéric "Freddy" Rolin (1919-2001) Collection, Brussels / New York

John and Marcia (1938-2018) Friede, The Jolika Collection, Rye, New York

Michael Hamson, Palos Verdes, acquired from the above

Voyageurs et Curieux, Paris

Private Collection, Paris, acquired from the above

Hamson, M., ed., Between the Known and the Unknown: New Guinea Art From Astrolabe Bay to Morobe, Palos Verdes, 2016, pp. 298 - 299, cat. n° 163

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