Kalifala SIDIBÉ

Extremely rare first edition of the exhibition catalog of paintings and photographs by Kalifala Sidibé and drawings by the Czechoslovak artist Václav Fiala at the Krasoumná Jednota Gallery in Prague.

[With:] 3 original 1930's German cigarette cards depicting 3 Sidibé paintings in color: "The Judgment of Pâris", "On the banks of the Niger River" and "Elephant Hunt". These are very rare reproductions of Sidibé's paintings, which have all but disappeared today. Each card is numbered and includes a short biography of the painter on verso.
Two of the paintings featured on the cards to our knowledge have never been reproduced in the rare il

Kalifala Sidibé peintre soudanais [Soudanese painter]


[Galerie Georges Bernheim] | Paris [1929] | 11.5 x 15 cm | original wrappers
First edition of an extraordinarily rare Georges Bernheim Gallery catalogue for the Kalifala Sidibé exhibition, Malian painter, considered the first African painter on canvas, the precursor of modern African Art.
Texts by Roland Dorgelès, Le Corbusier and Georges Huisman, cover illustrated with a photograph of the painter in his village.
This catalogue of the first Kalifala Sidibé exhibition, who went on to tour Europe, was thought to have been lost until now, and of the fifty or so paintings produ