Le 30 juin 1960, Zaïre indépendant (Primary Title)

Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu, Congolese, 1947 - ca. 1982 (Artist)

ca. 1970–73
Congolese
Acrylic on flour sack
Unframed: 18 × 25 in. (45.72 × 63.5 cm)
Framed: 19 1/4 × 26 3/8 in. (48.9 × 66.99 cm)
2017.70
Not on view
Signed at lower right corner: “Tshibumba / K-M”
Inscribed in paint at upper right edge: “LE 30 JUIN 1960 ZAIRE INDÉPENDANT”
Eric and Jeanette Lipman Fund
53 Echoes of Zaire: Popular Painting from Lubumbashi, DRC, Gallery Sulger-Buel Lovell, London, May 27 – September 12, 2015

A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art, Museum for African Art, New York, NY, April 23 – August 15, 1999
Diop, Salimata, ed. 53 Echoes of Zaire: Popular Painting from Lubumbashi, DRC. London: The Africa Centre, 2015. Exhibition catalogue.

Jewsiewicki, Bogumil. A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art. New York: Museum for African Art, 1999. Exhibition catalogue.
©artist or artist’s estate

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