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ABOVE: Poos’hum Katsina,
which appears during the
spring planting season.
Hopi, Arizona, United States.
1910–1920.
Wood, pigments, feathers. H: 29.5 cm.
Ex California collection.
© Galerie Flak.
FAR LEFT: Helmet mask.
Kota, Gabon.
Late 19th–early 20th century.
Wood, pigments. H: 76 cm.
© Galerie Didier Claes/Studio Philippe
de Formanoir–Paso Doble.
LEFT: Mask, je.
Yaure, Côte d’Ivoire.
Late 19th century.
Wood, pigments. H: 35 cm.
Ex Michel Lostalem, Michel Laprugne.
© Galerie Jacques Germain.
ART in motion
Patrick Varnier’s Têtes Grotesques (Grotesque Heads) series.
Galerie Flak also will inaugurate an exhibition titled
Poupées kachina des indiens hopi d’Arizona (Kachina
Dolls of the Hopi Indians of Arizona) for the occasion.
It will present a corpus of examples drawn mainly from
a single New York collection assembled in the 1960s.
This show will be yet another manifestation of the Flak
family’s enduring passion for these figures of spirits and
deities from the Hopi pantheon, which contains nearly
450 different entities. They appeared at masked ceremonies
as transmitters of knowledge and guarantors of the
perpetuation of the ancestral traditions and beliefs of this
Arizona Indian tribe.
CANADIAN SUMMER
MONTREAL—Jacques Germain will provide a preview of
the material he will be offering at the 2018 Parcours des
Mondes in Paris during a summer exhibition at his space
in Montreal. On view from June 23 until July 28, it will
feature classic African artworks that evoke the taste that
was prevalent in Paris in the 1920s when the sensibilities
for non-Western art were developing among the masters
of the European avant-garde. This celebration of the first
Golden Age of tribal art in Europe was conceived of by
Germain to coincide with the presentation of the Picasso
et les arts premiers (Picasso and Tribal Art) exhibition at
the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
DIDIER CLAES HEADS TO ASIA
HONG KONG—Didier Claes took obvious pride in recently
announcing that his gallery, along with those of
two other dealers in other fi elds of African art, has been
invited by Christie’s to participate its Carte Blanche exhibition
that will be held at the Hong Kong Convention
Center from May 25–29, 2018, as a part of its spring
sales season. This is a prime opportunity to share his passion
with an Asian audience, and to that end Claes has
selected a group of high-quality masks that together illustrate
the diversity these objects can display. These will
include a Tshokwe mask from the DR Congo, an Ibibio
mask from Nigeria, a Kota helmet mask from Gabon, and
a number of other surprises.
JEUDI DES BEAUX-ARTS
PARIS—The monthly Jeudi des Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts
Thursday), sponsored by the resident galleries along the
famed rue des Beaux-Arts in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés
neighborhood, will take place on June 7 and will feature
the opening of a number of thematic exhibitions showcasing
a variety of high-quality artworks. Galerie Meyer
will juxtapose pieces from its inventory with works from
BELOW: Mask, zamble.
Guro, Côte d’Ivoire.
Late 19th century.
Wood, pigments. H: 50 cm.
Collected by Governor-General Joseph
Guyon between 1911 and 1913.
© Galerie Jacques Germain.