Art dealer and keen collector of archaeological and ethnographic objects for the past twenty years, Martin Doustar first started with Modern Art back in the early 2000′s. At the time, the internet was just beginning to open up almost limitless possibilities for acquiring knowledge, researching information, and making discoveries.

Over these years he sharpened his eye and focused on the historical period in the development of Modern Art, around cubism and the European Avant-Garde, through to their extension into Lyrical and Constructed Abstraction. This is how he initially came into contact with African and Oceanic arts, as essential sources of modernism.

From Gauguin to Picasso and Man Ray, by way of the Surrealists, the great thematic exhibitions such as “Primitivism in 20th Century Art” in 1984, and more recently “Visual Encounters” at the Beyeler Foundation, have clearly shown what a decisive influence the arts from these diverse cultures had on the major artists of the early twentieth century.

It is in the tradition of precursors and visionary dealers like Paul Guillaume, Pierre Loeb, Marius de Zayas or Joseph Brummer, that today, we would like to share these affinities of form between Primitive and Ancient Arts with a circle of like-minded collectors.

The selection of artworks we present meets the same criteria and standards Martin Doustar set for myself as a collector through the search for pure and authentic forms of artistic expressions, out of market trends, and with an uncompromising aesthetic rigor..