PARIS.- Christie’s African Art department announced the sale of major pieces from the Dennis Hotz Collection. The 25 works of art are expected to fetch together between € 1.5 and 2.2 million euros. Amongst the highlights, the collection includes the iconic Ratton Kota-Ndassa figure, a Dan mask formerly in the collection of Hubert Goldet, a Songye Kifwebe mask, a Dogon female figure, of the Tomo-ka style, formerly in the Solvit Collection (published Leloup, Dogon [1994]). Over the past 30 years Dennis Hotz has formed an outstanding collection of Tribal art, distinguished by a sophisticated sensibility and built with a passion for the vitality of great sculpture. The collection is displayed in a deliberate discourse alongside a collection of 20th-century Modern and Contemporary art from Picasso, Dubuffet, Soulages, César and Arman. The genesis of the Tribal art collection was in 1983 when Hotz attended the Sadruddin Aga K