Floris Jespers (1889-1965)

Market in Kamina Marché à Kamina

细节
Floris Jespers (1889-1965)
Market in Kamina
Marché à Kamina
signed and dated lower left Jespers 52 and inscribed on the reverse
oil on canvas
90 x 120 cm
出版
Lynne Thornton, Les Africanistes, peintres voyageurs 1860-1960, Paris, A.C.R. Edition, 1990, p.260-261, illustrated.
拍场告示
Please note that the medium should read oil on board

拍品专文

Most of the women painted during the artist's first journey to the Belgian Congo, in 1951-52, were Luba, many of whom lived in the area around Kamina. The Luba, who practiced circumcision and women's initiation, had, like many other animists, a strong belief in a supreme being and worshipped ancestors and natural spirits.