Negritude

by Vera Nilsson

Artist Vera Nilsson (Sverige, 1888 - 1979)

Dateca 1959

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsBildmått: 106,5 × 71,5 cm Ram: 112,7 × 77,8 × 3,2 cm

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchase 1963

Countries

Sweden

On view

Stockholm

RoomStudy Gallery 08: Screen 5

Object NumberNM 5753

About the artworkThe sculptor Liss Eriksson introduced Vera Nilsson to Senegalese students in Paris, whom she hired as models. She painted several portraits of Omar Thiav and Menzor Siz. Here she came into contact with the Négritude movement in 1948. The term négritude was coined in the late 1930s by the writer and politician Aimé Césaire from Martinique. This concept celebrating a revolutionary, “black” aesthetics brought together intellectuals in the Caribbean and Africa. By enhancing a common identity for Africans and Caribbeans in Africa, still dominated by white norms, they protested against the colonial rule. The movement was picked up by radicals in Europe, including the poet and theorist Léopold Senghor – the first president of Senegal – and the French philosopher and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks I grönt 106,5 x 71,5 cm Stockholm., En brun etikett med bläck "Negritude" Vera Nilsson omk. 1959 Vera Nilsson Fiskarg 14 Stockholm. Selected exhibition history I förvillelsens tid. Vera Nilssons teckningar och skisser 1910-1970/ Times of Aberration. Scetches and drawings by Vera Nilsson 1910 - 1970 (2001-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Vera Nilsson (den 15 maj 2002 - den 1 september 2002) Kalmar Konstmuseum Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Vera Nilsson : I förvillelsens tid : en utställning kring Vera Nilssons skissböcker : [Moderna Museet 13/10 2001-6/1 2002]

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