Fine African Art
African art is one of the most significant discoveries of the early 20th century. Its revolutionary aesthetic language profoundly impacted and inspired the Avant-Garde, giving rise to Primitivism, an art movement that transformed Contemporary Art at its core.
The sculptures presented by our Gallery document and make explicit this long-established relationship between Primitive Art and Contemporary Art, and at the same time, through their antiquity and stylistic rigor, they represent outstanding examples of African Classicism.
They come from the historic style centers of classical African sculpture: the Sub-Saharan and Equatorial regions, that is, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and so on.
It is in these areas that the works were created which earned ancient African Art a prominent place in the panorama of extra-European art, as well as a fundamental role in the revolution that took place in European art at the beginning of the 20th century, a revolution that lies at the origin of modern and contemporary aesthetic vision.
The sculptures we present are the result of knowledgeable research and rigorous selection that, beyond period and authenticity, favors the highest formal quality.
