Yellow Roofs, Blue Boat, Tshibanda Muayabu Mid 20th C. Presumed Congolese Folk Art Tempera Painting plastic lacquer late 19th c

late 19th c

but I don't know any more about it than that

and that her plates are quite a known and collected thing

a "titan of real  estate in Boston for six decades" who

Yellow Roofs, Blue Boat, Tshibanda Muayabu Mid 20th C. Presumed Congolese Folk Art Tempera Painting plastic lacquer late 19th cI purchased this and a second watercolor by the same person at Brimfield, then immediately liberated them from old mats and frames upon returning home in order to really see them; they needed to see the light of day and the colors in this one are especially fantastic. (All they need now is to float against white in a very simple, clean, white or black frame.) The other is signed, twice Tshi Mua and Tshibanda Muayabu, I believe most likely Congolese,