No image available

This is either because the work has not been photographed, or the copyright holder has not given permission to show images. Please contact Moderna Museet’s Rights & Reproductions if you have any questions regarding images.

Skulptur

by Sonja Ferlov Mancoba

Artist Sonja Ferlov Mancoba (Danmark, 1911 - 1984)

Date1941 - 1946

MediumBrons

Dimensions50 x 108 cm

ClassificationSculptures

Credit LinePurchase 1970

Countries

Germany, Denmark, Frankrike

Object NumberNMSK 2065

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkDanish sculptor Sonja Ferlov Mancoba moved to Paris in 1936 and rented a studio in the same area as Alberto Giacometti. There she also met her future husband, artist Ernest Mancoba from South Africa. Her sculptures were inspired by African and pre-Columbian art, and she combined abstraction and Surrealism to create semiabstract creatures, warrior figures and masks in clay and plaster. She was uncompromising in her creativity, often destroying works she found unsatisfactory. Ferlov Mancoba began her career in the 1930s in the Danish artist group Linien, with links to Surrealism and abstract art. Her sculptures were considered to represent primitivism, but she distanced herself from the concept and, over time, from other groups as well. She wanted to create art in which the spiritual content was more important than the subject matter.
Selected exhibition history Surrealism, samlingen (den 19 oktober 2024 - den 18 januari 2026) Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Works by the artist