1968-01-13

13-1-68

My dear Ernest

I have just got Christians bookes with the reproduction of your sculpture in Elise Johansens collection, and I am all under strong impression from it fantastic force, wisdom and insight.

It xxxxx your fantastic and strong personality. 

Your work must be a key oeuvre of the sculpture of our time. Your contribution points out a way that is Ernest Mancobas. But so strong and so mightfull that Ernest Mancoba has to proceed too by this way, |a duty of information.| People have got so much to learn and must have revieled  it out as you and Sonja does it, again and again, so that you lead us into the direction of your art.

Your paintings and your drawing, - I still remember the one hanging over the store with big admiration – have got the same importance.

If course others have said the same as you says. But you say it in another way. You say it in a way that to me appears so I hear the words said. you give the words a rebirth, you add to the expression a deeper value, wich not has been revealed and brought to the conscience yet.

What I wanted to say is that the road is yours but it is the one where we all should walk towards.

Neither my words nor my thoughts will express min oplevelse nor my admiration for your works, but I hope you understand what I meant to say after all. Your art is a nessessity.

With warm friendship

from 

Steingrim