Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938)
Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938)

Crossing the Kemo, in Oubangui-Chari 'Le passage de la Kmo, en Oubangui-Chari'

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Alexandre Iacovleff (1887-1938)
Crossing the Kemo, in Oubangui-Chari
'Le passage de la Kmo, en Oubangui-Chari'
signed and dated lower right A Iacovleff/1925
oil on canvas
75.5 x 52.5 cm
Literature
Lynne Thornton, Les Africanistes, peintres voyageurs 1860-1960, Paris, A.C.R. Edition, 1990, p.117 illustrated.

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Compare with a photograph of this scene in Fabien Sabat's, La Croisire Noire Citron, Paris, Eric Baschet Editions, 1980. Going through the tropical forest on a hunting expedition, in March 1925, the convoy's vehicles had to cross the river on a pontoon of pirogues, hauled by a very long liana.

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