African Paintings

These naïve paintings on canvass relate the legend of the Queen of Sheba.
She is supposed to have been the Queen of Ethiopia and Yemen, and to have decided to go to Jerusalem in order to meet King Solomon. According to tradition, they had a baby-boy, Menelik.
Menelik was the first Emperor of Ethiopia,he founded the Lion of Judas dynasty which the Ethiopian sovereigns claimed they belonged to, down to Haile Selassie who died in 1975.