Lot 9
  • 9

Louche en corne de mouflon ,Haïda,Colombie Britannique, Côte nord-ouest

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
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Description

  • Haïda
  • Louche en corne de mouflon
  • long. 23,5 cm
  • 9 1/2 in
Le cuilleron très évasé dessine une courbe profonde, dont la ligne tendue se prolonge dans la poignée sculptée d'une tête d'ours, relevée vers le ciel. A la grande finesse de la gravure répond la puissance des traits - l'expression féroce offerte par la bouche ouverte sur des crocs acérés, les naseaux dilatés, les grands yeux aux pupilles proéminentes et les oreilles dressées. Très belle patine miel, profonde.

Provenance

Collectée par George G. Heye
Museum of the American Indian, New York, Heye Foundation, n° d'inventaire 22/5280
Acquise par la Stolper Galleries le 15 mars 1969

Condition

The ladle is in very good original condition, with a rich, dark patina.
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Catalogue Note

cf. Sotheby's, New York, octobre 2006, n° 51, pour une louche très comparable.

George G. Heye (1874-1957) fonda en 1916 le Museum of the American Indian - Heye Foundation - ouvert au public en 1922 et dont les collections (léguées à la ville de New York) forment, depuis 1994, le Heye Center of the National Museum (Smithonian Institution, Manhattan). Son goût pour la collecte d'objets débuta en 1897 avec l'acquisition, en Arizona, d'une tunique Navajo. Il se transforma rapidement en une passion dévorante, à laquelle il consacra, à partir de 1909, toute sa vie, son énergie et sa fortune. Il constitua la collection la plus importante au monde d'œuvres ethnographiques et archéologiques de Native American Art. Sa fondation - dédiée à la collecte, la conservation et la présentation - rassemble près d'un million d'objets appartenant à plus d'un millier de groupes ethniques et couvrant une période de dix mille ans. Heye n'hésitait pas à se dessaisir d'objets qu'il considérait comme des doublons, et qui par conséquent n'augmentaient pas la valeur de sa collection. Ainsi, c'est au Museum of the American Indian que le cercle des Surréalistes exilés à New York - en particulier André Breton, Max Ernst et Roberto Matta - ainsi que les intellectuels Claude Lévi-Strauss, Robert Lebel ou encore Georges Duthuit acquirent, par l'intermédiaire du célèbre marchand new yorkais Julius Carlebach, plusieurs des œuvres les plus importantes de leur collection d'art de la Côte nord-ouest.

A Haida mountain sheep horn ladle, British Columbia, Northwest Coast

See Sotheby's (New York, October 2006, no. 51) for a similar example.

George G. Heye (1874-1957) founded the Museum of the American Indian in 1916, opening it to the public in 1922. Since 1994 his collection has been displayed in the Heye Center, New York City, part of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Heye's interest in American Indian objects began in 1897, when he acquired a Navajo tunic in Arizona. It was to become an all-consuming passion, and from 1909 onwards Heye devoted his life and his fortune to assembling the world's most important collection of Native American objects.

The Heye Foundation - dedicated to the collection, conservation and presentation of Native American art - includes nearly a million objects from more than 1000 ethnic groups and covering a period of 10000 years. Heye did not hesitate to part with objects which he considered to be duplicates, and which consequently did not increase the scientific value of his collection. Thus it was from the collection of the Museum of the American Indian that Surrealist artists exiled in New York - in particular André Breton, Max Ernst and Roberto Matta - as well as intellectuals such as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Robert Lebel and George Duthuit acquired through Julius Carlebach, the famous dealer, several of the most important works from their collections of Northwest Coast Art.