Début de la Carriere politique, Lumumba en Prison central de Buluo à Jadotville (Primary Title)

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

ca. 1970–73
Congolese
Acrylic on flour sack
Unframed: 15 3/4 × 26 7/8 in. (40.01 × 68.26 cm)
Framed: 17 1/4 × 28 1/4 in. (43.82 × 71.76 cm)
2017.76
Signed in white paint at lower right corner: “oeuvre/Tshibumba/KANDA-MATALU”
Inscribed in white paint: “DEBUT DE LA CARRIERE POLITIQUE/LUMUMBA EN PRISON CENTRAL”
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 New Necessity, First Tyne International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, May 18 – October 21, 1990
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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