• Classic African Art: a universal art, a timeless and universal link between humanity today and its deep origins

Classical African Art has an aesthetic force of great power which far exceeds that of all other forms of Art observed since the beginning of human civilizations. Classical African Art is first, in fact, the only one in the world to have been built and enriched through a single sedimentation of creation for several millennia. Thus, a piece of authentic African art, however modest, is the result of 3000 or 4000 years of human experience, beliefs and culture. To live in group, in community, in society, to share, to exchange, to fight against nature or to try to domesticate it, to tame the fauna, the flora, to face the elements, the other men, the diseases, the climate. Take shelter, Give life,

And beyond, still, we find in Classical African Art, the genius of the craftsman, the artist, the authentic creator who shapes the utility or functional object to perform a ritual, participate in a ceremony or else still realize a “necessity” for the community.

Classical African art is thus a unique sacred territory resulting from cults and rituals in which all human cultures can come to connect to draw a source of renewal. It was this same Land of experimentation that inspired Picasso during the first decade of the 20th century when he was looking for a new breath in the face of a world he saw collapsing. Picasso drew from it the sources of inspiration which would lead to the regeneration of modern Western art. Classical African Art then, inspired a lot the pictorial forms of cubism which results in a questioning of centuries of academic western artistic creation, ie not less than of the totality of the history of Art in West.

• African Art: an art whose market coast continues to strengthen

This reinforcement takes place to the tune of several million dollars on the most media stocks but there are still, on the other hand, formidable investment opportunities on works still present on the market.
Publicized since the end of the 90s for its many auction records in millions of dollars, traditional African Art only interests an elite composed either of wealthy international amateurs or of passionate collectors who knew, carried away by the strength of their passion, to build magnificent collections of authentic objects for a financial cost now considered lower. Today, real acquisition opportunities remain on certain coins still in circulation. It’s time to

• A context of plural mutations conducive to the arrival of new collectors

In the unanimous opinion of the experts, classical African art remains today “sub-side” compared to the prices of modern and contemporary art. In addition, the phenomenon of historic “cultural reappropriation” of traditional African art by the new classes of the African bourgeoisie promises to be unavoidable for the decades to come. Like the phenomenon that has agitated the spheres of the Chinese art world since the beginning of the early 2000s, due to the exponential development of a Chinese business class that has sought to reclaim its culture. The same process of “reappropriation” is irremediable from the elites of the black continent itself as from the international African diaspora dispersed all around the globe which is preparing,

As we can see through this in no way exhaustive overview, the African art market is currently undergoing rapid change. A generation of collectors and merchants leaves room for another. New publishers are showing up, professional and university databases are opening up to the general public. The Internet allows new international exchanges and access to new schools of thought and analysis which do not fail to influence the tastes and appreciations of collectors.

In this context of full renewal, an international exchange exchange between collectors from all walks of life, DIVART-GALLERY has only one objective: to bring a new stone to the great temple of knowledge and the dissemination of Art classic African. Because we are convinced, this art is always and still, a century after having revolutionized Western artistic creation, able to be a new source of inspiration and deep enrichment of the contemporary West. The universality and sharing of Art being for us the best inspirations of any progress society.