Untitled - DR Congo

Authentic Congolese painting signed Kaniemba and dated 1968 - Hangar School - Elisabethville. Oil on stretched canvas - 60 x 70 cm - Very good condition. Direct provenance from a family estate (daughter of a former Belgian colonial).
Artist: KANIEMBA (1937), whose full name is Kaniemba Louis Timothée, was born in 1937 in a village in the Congo. He is a major Congolese painter from the Hangar School (Lubumbashi). Trained by master Pili Pili Mulangoy, he is distinguished by poetic scenes of daily life and animals, often painted directly with the finger.
The Hangar School refers to a pioneering indigenous art workshop founded in 1946 in Élisabethville (now Lubumbashi, DRC) by French painter Pierre Romain-Desfossés. He, a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Elisabethville, taught him to paint and encouraged him to persevere. KANIEMBA nevertheless abandoned these lessons in 1956, and became close to a young artist, MWILA ANDRE. They will create their own workshop.
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