LEMA KUSA [Kinkenge (Bas-Congo), 1944, lives & works in kins - Lot 45

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300 - 600 EUR
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LEMA KUSA [Kinkenge (Bas-Congo), 1944, lives & works in kins - Lot 45
LEMA KUSA [Kinkenge (Bas-Congo), 1944, lives & works in kinshasa] Untitled. Oil on canvas. 99 x 94 cm. Poor condition. Signed lower left and dated 75. Lema Kusa was a former student of Fine Arts in Kinshasa, where he became a professor and director of the Graphic Arts Department. His paintings are often realistic and sometimes abstract, depicting everyday life with the subconsciousness of a photographer. Women are the prominent figures in his work, portrayed as mothers, wives and children whom men must love at all costs and protect from violence. In addition, he creates paintings that are strong and moral. Kusa's work contains paintings of drunkards, prostitutes, market figures, beggars and idlers with a strong expressionist palette and a distinctive and subtle humor. His various works are remarkably vivid, colorful, symbolic, and sometimes abstract...
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