Colonie Belge 1941, Gouverneur Marron dans Martyrs de l’U.M.H.K. à Lubumbashi (Primary Title)

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

ca. 1970–73
Congolese
Acrylic on flour sack
Unframed: 17 3/8 × 28 1/4 in. (44.13 × 71.76 cm)
Framed: 18 13/16 × 28 5/16 in. (47.78 × 71.91 cm)
2017.69
Signed in light brown paint at lower left corner: “Tshibumba/KANDA-MATALU”
Inscribed in brown paint at lower right edge: “COLONIE-BELGE 1941[encircled] / GOUVERNEUR MARRON DANS MARTYRS DE L’U.M.H.K. A LUBUMBASHI”
Eric and Jeanette Lipman Fund
53 Echoes of Zaire: Popular Painting from Lubumbashi, DRC, Gallery Sulger-Buel Lovell, London, May 27 – September 12, 2015
Diop, Salimata, ed. 53 Echoes of Zaire: Popular Painting from Lubumbashi, DRC. London: The Africa Centre, 2015. Exhibition catalogue.

Cornet, J. A., et al. 60 ans de peinture du Zaire. Bruxelles: Les Editeurs d’Art Associés, 1989.
©artist or artist’s estate

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