Le Monstre de la Cessession Katangaise (Primary Title)

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

ca. 1970–73
Congolese
Acrylic on flour sack
Unframed: 15 13/16 × 20 3/4 in. (40.16 × 52.71 cm)
Framed: 17 1/4 × 22 1/4 in. (43.82 × 56.52 cm)
2017.82
Signed at lower left edge: “Tshibumba/KANDA-MATALU”
Inscribed in paint along lower edge: “LE MONSTRE DE LA CESSESSION KATANGAISE”
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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