© Anne Deknock 40 and spirituality,” as Amaëlle Favreau so aptly described it, was the venue for her efforts. It was both easy and challenging to immerse oneself “between the lines,” the theme she was developing after the Sacred Baule show she had held during Parcours in 2014. Maine made her fi rst African art acquisition, a small red-painted fi gure standing fi rmly on its legs with its hands on its abdomen beneath a Modigliani-like face, at a fl ea market in Aix-en-Provence. She was sixteen years old and had discovered Baule art without knowing it. An amazing life followed, full of adventure, passion, and travel throughout Africa. Thousands of kilometers were covered in search of the object that “breathes,” as she liked to say. Indeed it was the life within the object that she sought—its energy and sincerity that initially attracted her to it. Such things that make us feel alive: the pure and perfect lines of a Tongan club, the elegant curve of Kikuyu shield, the harmonious form of a Haida fi sh hook or of a Luba ivory crescent pendant, the voluptuousness of a Surinam spoon, or the traits of an Ikwerre bird mask. All of these objects were included in the Entre les lignes show at the 2015 Parcours. Our desire to participate in this event with Amaëlle came from that feeling. Maine always followed her desire to share her audacious yet refi ned eye with a larger family of collectors and dealers. She sought to give others the joy of being moved by these treasures, so different from one another yet all united in a power and simplicity that also defi ned Maine herself. In a more intimate way, these objects prolong our relationship with her and keep her close to us. They send us signs that life goes on, and new admirers of these things who did not know her have discovered the gallery and been enriched by fi nding this bond between themselves and people from other places and times. It is as if, despite everything, she continued to nourish the dream and to arouse curiosity as a brightly shining light for so many collectors. BELOW: Images from the catalog for the Lobi exhibition at Galerie Maine Durieu combined with pages from the unpublished book L’arbre et la statuaire Lobi, by Maine Durieu, written in Abidjan in 1978. © Galerie Maine Durieu and Frank Verdier 2016. BOTTOM: Maine Durieu in her gallery, 2014. ABOVE: Male fi gure. Lobi, Burkina Faso. Wood. H: 57 cm. Presented in the Lobi exhibition at Galerie Maine Durieu, Paris. Photo: Frank Verdier. FAIRS AND AUCTIONS: ART in motion 11–20 March 2016 TEFAF Maastricht, The Netherlands www.tefaf.com 17–20 March 2016 Paris rue Visconti Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Paris 23 March 2016 The Vanden Avenne Collection Binoche & Giquello Drouot Richelieu, Paris Binocheetgiquello.com 31 March–3 April 2016 Pavillon des Arts et du Design Jardin des tuileries, Paris www.pad-fairs.com 2–3 April 2016 Antwerp Tribal & Ethnographic Arts Fair (ATEAF) Kasteel Ieperman Antwerp, Belgium www.tribalartsfair.com 7–10 April 2016 Paris Tribal 6th arrondissement, Paris www.paristribal.com 8 April 2016 Private Collection of Tribal Art Pierre Bergé, Hôtel Drouot, Paris www.pba-auctions.com 27 April–8 May 2016 AOA New York Tambaran Gallery, New York www.aoany.com 5–8 May 2016 Madison Ancient & Tribal Art (MATA) Arader Gallery, New York madisonancientandtribalart.com 7 May 2016 Malcolm Collection, part 1 and African and Oceanic Art Sotheby’s, New York www.sothebys.com 10 May 2016 Revolution of Form: African, Oceanic, and 20th-Century Art Christie’s, New York www.christies.com 11 May 2016 African and Oceanic Art Bonhams, Los Angeles www.bonhams.com 26–29 May 2016 Bourgogne Tribal Show Besanceuil delvoyeurs.com 28 May 2016 Tribal Art Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg www.tribal-art-auktion.de 30 May 2016 Tribal, Native American, Pre-Columbian, Oceanic, and African Art Eve, Paris www.auctioneve.com
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