La Mort historique de Lumumba, Mpolo et Okito (Primary Title)

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

ca. 1970–73
Congolese
Acrylic on flour sack
Unframed: 17 11/16 × 28 in. (44.93 × 71.12 cm)
Framed: 19 1/8 × 29 1/2 in. (48.58 × 74.93 cm)
2017.79
Signed at lower right corner: “Tshibumba / K-M”
Inscribed in paint at lower edge: “LA MORT HISTORIQUE DE LUMUMBA, MPOLO et OKITO”
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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