Mwenze KIBWANGA [Kilumba (DRC), 1925–1999, Lubumbashi (DRC)] Retour de marché. Oil on canvas. 80 x 100 cm. Signed and dated 63 lower right. Interesting frame engraved with fish, snakes, etc (several holes and tears).. 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.. Signé et daté 63 en bas à droite. Intéressant cadre gravé de poissons, serpents, etc (plusieurs trous et déchirures).