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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  The Todd Barlin Collection of Fine Oceanic & Asian Arts
• Sale Date:
  08 May 2016 ~ 12noon
• Lot #:
  327
• Lot Description:
  A Fine & Early New Caledonia Club, 18th to Early 19th Century
  This early club is clearly stone carved & finished with a shell rasp. It has had a small wax repair to the tip of the nose & a small break on the back of the hooded head, both clearly shown in the photos. A good restorer could fix these easily. On a Custom Stand.
  183 cm
• Provenance:
  George Ortiz Collection / Allen D Christensen Collection / Todd Barlin Collection.
• Notes:
  George Ortiz (1927 - 2013) studied in France, UK and USA. In 1949, a trip to Greece revealed a passion for antique objects. He began collecting and over the ensuing decades formed one of the world's greatest private collections of ancient and tribal art" Todd Barlin. The Ortiz Collection was exhibited in the Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg), the Pushkin Museum (Moscow), the Royal Academy (London) and the Altes Museum in Berlin. Allen D Christensen (1907-1989) was an American mining engineer who had a keen interest in Marine Biology in Papua New Guinea and also began to collect indigenous Art from around the world. He gifted 4000 Aboriginal artefacts to the Museum of Victoria in 1995 and had loaned most of the collection of Pacific Art to The Museum of West Australia. All the major public institutions in Australia received gifts from his collection, along with Fowler museum UCLA, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and the Stanford University Collection.
• Estimate:
  A$2,500 - 3,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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