Born in c1920, Bela Sara became one of the most recognised members of the modernist movement in Central Africa, the Lubumbashi painting atelier, which was established by artist-patron <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/pierre-romain-desfosses">Pierre Romain-Desfossés</a> in the 1940s. The atelier was known as 'Le Hangar', the 'Élisabethville Indigenous Art Studio', and later the Académie de