Mwenze KIBWANGA [Kilumba (DRC), 1925-1999, Lubumbashi (DRC)]. Return from the Hunt. Oil on canvas laid down on panel. 56.5 x 82 cm. Signed lower right and dated 1953, craquelure and loss in the upper middle. Mwenze Kibwanga, born in 1925 in Kilumba, Katanga province In 1934, he started attending classes at the Protestant mission in Mwanza, where he also took drawing lessons. He left the village in 1942 to settle in Elisabethville and continued his basic education with the Methodists, In 1950, Kibwanga was admitted to the "l'Atelier du Hangar" founded by French painter, Romain-Desfossés There, he developed his style, bringing his subjects to life through a technique of hatching and parallel lines alternating between light and dark tones that follow the shapes of people, animals, and vegetation... Signed lower right and dated 1953, with cracks and losses in the upper middle.