Female Mossi figure, €40,000 (£35,715) at Lempertz.
The new season got off to an encouraging start for Cologne auction house Lempertz (26% buyer’s premium) when it held an African and Oceanic art sale on February 1 in Brussels.
The auction is traditionally timed to coincide with the BRAFA art fair and there was international interest in the room, on the phones and online – in particular for the 159 objects from the collection of Seymour Lazar, a flamboyant celebrity lawyer in Palm Springs.