Galerie Georges Bernheim

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