"Oriental painting" is work by Congolese artist Louis Koyongonda

Rops, from Belgium, sells on 17 April 2016 a, "Signed Oriental painting" of a writer, estimated at 80 to 120 Euro.

It isn't oriental but African, by the Congolese / Zairese painter Louis Koyongonda (1918-), one of the major painters of the newly independent Zaire. When e.g. in 1962 the Congolese prime minister Cyrille Adoula visited JF Kennedy at the White House, they offered a Koyongonda painting as gift.

Afterwards he seems have been largely forgotten, and his later work is much less impressive as well. The one for sale here is fairly good, and he might well be one of these artists who gets much more appreciated as a forerunner in the future. It should be worth a lot more one day, and will be worth more than the estimate even today already if the buyers can find him.

UPDATE: sold for 50 Euro, I thnk someone got a bargain in the long run...

UPDATE 2: again for sale at Rops on 24 March 2018, with same estimate and description. Still a bargain in the long run, still not worth a lot nowadays though.