Pili Pili Mulongoy [Ngolo, Katanga, 1914-2007, Kinshasa (DRC)] Untitled. Oil on panel. 44 x 34.5 cm. Framed, signed lower middle. Pili Pili was born into a family of fishermen in Ngolo, in the province of Katanga, in the former Belgian Congo. In 1947, he managed to enter the young "Academy of Indigenous Art", the official name of the Hangar Workshop created by the former officer Pierre Romain-Desfossés. Later, Pili Pili joined the Academy of Fine Arts in Lubumbashi as a teacher.