Lucas Ratton

Established since 2012 in the heart of the saint germain des près district, galerie lucas ratton champions tribal art.

For Lucas Ratton, the passion for African Art has been passed down through his family heritage. His grandfather Maurice and his great-uncle Charles Ratton were both close to the avant-garde artists of the 1920s, from the surrealist André Breton to the great poet and art theorist Guillaume Apollinaire, as well as to the brilliant inventor of cubism Pablo Picasso and Maurice de Vlaminck or André Derain. Pioneers of the African art market, they presented choice historical objects in their galleries, a level of demand perpetuated in his gallery by Lucas' father, Philippe, and passed on to Lucas.

The gallery features objects from sub-Saharan Africa, as well as works from Oceania and British Columbia. Today, Lucas has made a name for himself in the inner circle of tribal art experts, thanks in part to his participation in international fairs. For Lucas, it's also a question of continuing the family tradition of confrontation and dialogue between non-European art and modern and contemporary art, and of collaborating with artists and museums to defend and present African art as an integral part of the world's art-historical heritage. In September 2020, Galerie Lucas Ratton, which has been located at 33 rue de Seine for a decade, will move to a larger space at 11 rue Bonaparte!