George Lilanga (1934-2005) - Suono e ballo

This is an extraordinary original work by the great African artist George Lilanga.

Certificate of provenance and declaration of rightful ownership.

Sculpture, oil on wood

Signed at the base

Dimensions: approx. 33 x 20 x 20 cm

Excellent conditions



George Lilanga (Kikwetu, 1934 – Dar es Salaam, June 27, 2005) was a Tanzanian painter and sculptor. Trained at the Tingatinga painting school in Dar es Salaam, he is internationally renowned for his distinctive painting and sculptural style, characterized by figures from Makonde culture with vivid colors and sharp outlines, highly dynamic and caricatured.

In the 1990s George Lilanga became increasingly famous, even though his success was greater abroad than in his own country, Tanzania. He thus reached the highest levels of his artistic maturity. Numerous exhibitions of his works were held in many countries, and he was recognized as one of the great African artists, probably the greatest contemporary African artist. In these years his works took on ever larger dimensions (from this period are the oil paintings on canvas of about one square meter in surface, colorful sculptures, the first large canvases over 200 centimeters in length, and the masonite/faesite boards 61 x 122 centimeters). This is from that period of our sculpture, executed in the mid-1990s.