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Mwila (20th Century - Lubumbashi, DRC)

Sold for €2,100 at Stanley's auction on Jun 30, 2022.

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Sans titre (Trio d’oiseaux). Huile sur papier. 39 x 49. Signée, datée 1959, encadrée. In the 1940s, the French painter Pierre Robert Desfossés established his workshop, “Le Hangar” in Elisabethville. Mwila was a student there during the mid-20th century. The style of painting that emerged from Desfossés workshop is poetic-narrativist. It is seemingly flat and decorative due to its repetitive patterns. Like the painters of his generation, he draws his inspiration from nature to offer a dreamlike universe where life imposes itself in each brushstroke. This animal scene shows the sublime elegance of nature Lines full of harmony to delight us..

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