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Beauty, rarity, authenticity, ethnological... these are our criteria for selecting pieces of African art that we sell.
A single selection on the internet at competitive prices! For 30 years, we collect with passion African art from private collections, galleries or identified by our network through the villages of Africa.
Each African object, sold on this site is unique, with large ornamental qualities and was directed by his ethnic tribal corresponding activities..
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OBJETS AFRICAINS LES PLUS RECENTS MIS EN VENTE
Before being a source of pleasure, art was a precautionary measure, a necessity, an exorcism in order to survive in an often hostile world and in order to be at one with surrounding forces.
In African art, the effect, the efficiency of the work are primordial, they are the accomplishment of the artist’s intentions, of those that...
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For the statues
As we saw in the chapter “Art and Society” on art-africain.fr, sculptors took over from the divine healers to give visible form corresponding to one of the numerous genies or spirits that inhabited the African imagination.
The divine healer gave his patient all the necessary instructions to pass on to the sculptor in...
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With photography having the potential, in the eyes of some people, to relegate figurative painting to the ranks of a superfluous ideal, 20th century western artists very quickly came to appreciate the value of African sculpture. They took what they saw as free interpretations of nature, that they were not subject to any realist canon, and they thought that...
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