Olbrechts’s stylistic-anatomical method was adopted by other researchers such as Ezio Bassani, who was able to identify several ‘Masters of’ (a term that is also used for Flemish or French Primitives whose names we do not know). One of them is the Master of Kasadi.

In the early 1980s, a corpus of works was attributed to the Master of Kasadi. At that time, only phemba maternity statues had been described, such as this specimen. The name Master of Kasadi refers to the village of the same name in the Mayombe region, where two of these pieces were collected. Before the precise collection site was known, the artist was mostly referred to as the Master of the Briey Maternity Statue, named after a European owner of one of these renowned phemba statues.

Generally, pieces by the Master of Kasadi are characterized by their powerful, emaciated face.