Gaspart De Mouko Type Malinké Kankan

gaspart de mouko large portrait of a man type Malinké Kankan dated 1955 delivery 50 euros Gaspard de Mouko, influential painter Gaspard de Mouko is a Cameroonian portrait and landscape painter who pioneered the genre in sub-Saharan Africa. The first known works of Gaspard de Mouko date from the end of the 1930s, preceding those of artists like Ben Enwonwu or Gérard Sekoto who are very successful on the Anglo-Saxon art market. Traveling artist, he joined Congo Brazzaville at the beginning of the 1940s and then Abidjan in the 1950s. His painting quickly met with great success. He painted in particular the portrait of politicians like that of Générale de Gaulle and the first deputy Jean-Félix Tchikaya. A very influential painter, it was he who introduced modern painting to Congo Brazzaville and became the leader of the first generation of independent painters in this country.