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The Otto Dix Uli
NEW IRELAND ARTIST
Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
Details
NEW IRELAND ARTIST
Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
19th century
Uli figure, lembankakat egilampe
50 in. (127 cm.)
Alstonia wood, natural pigments, turbo petholatus
Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
19th century
Uli figure, lembankakat egilampe
50 in. (127 cm.)
Alstonia wood, natural pigments, turbo petholatus
Provenance
Arthur Speyer II (1894-1958), Berlin, by 1924
Friedrich-Wilhelm Fuchs, Berlin
Otto Dix (1891-1969), Dresden, acquired from the above
The Otto Dix Foundation, Switzerland
Lempertz, Brussels, 31 March 2012, lot 120
Private collection, Switzerland
Friedrich-Wilhelm Fuchs, Berlin
Otto Dix (1891-1969), Dresden, acquired from the above
The Otto Dix Foundation, Switzerland
Lempertz, Brussels, 31 March 2012, lot 120
Private collection, Switzerland
Literature
Schindlbeck, M., Gefunden und verloren. Arthur Speyer, die Dreissiger Jahre und die Verluste der Sammlung Südsee des Ethnologischen Museums Berlin, Bönen, 2012, pp. 109, 111 and 113, nos. 52, 54, 55
Beaulieu, J.-P., Uli: Powerful Ancestors from the Pacific, Bornival, 2021, p. 277, no. U8-3, (illustrated)
Beaulieu, J.-P., Uli: Powerful Ancestors from the Pacific, Bornival, 2021, p. 277, no. U8-3, (illustrated)
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