Lot n° 98
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MUNTU (1940–1985) - Lot 98
MUNTU (1940–1985)
Untitled (Men and a Crocodile), oil on cardboard. Signed twice on the back. Approx. 27 x 36.5 cm. Provenance: Professor Gaucquié, a colleague of L. Moonens; both were instructors at the Academy of Fine Arts in Elisabethville, then passed down through the family.
We thank Mr. De Plaen for providing the year of creation and confirming the authenticity of the work.
Note: Mode Muntu, born in 1940 in Lubumbashi, Congo, and the eldest of fourteen siblings, enrolled in his city’s Academy of Fine Arts at the age of fourteen. He created most of his works in gouache on cardboard and developed a distinctive aesthetic based on the innovative use of four-color printing and precise brushwork. His compositions, made up of small colored dots interplaying with one another, most often depict graphic silhouettes, both male and female. He passed away in 1985 and remained largely unknown to the art market for many years. It was only after his death that his work was rediscovered and brought to the forefront through several initiatives: a major exhibition at the Cité Miroir in Liège in 2017, where his paintings were displayed alongside those of A.R. Penck and Keith Haring; the 2015 publication of a monograph by Michaël De Plaen (*Mode Muntu, l’Homme Modeste*); and its inclusion in the major exhibition “Beauté Congo” held at the Fondation CARTIER in Paris in 2016.
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