Sotheby's Paris will inaugurate its calendar of tribal art sales for 2010 with a presentation of the Rosenthal Collection of Oceanic Art on March 24. Over thirty outstanding objects will be put before the bidders, including a series of eight sculptures from New Ireland, the largest and most important assemblage of art from this region offered in recent years. Bidding is expected to be particularly intense for a number of the objects on offer, including a New Ireland malanggan figure once owned by Eluard de Vlaminck, two pieces by New Guinea master carver Mutuaga, a pair of Easter Island figures, and a large Maori hei tiki.