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Ferlov Mancoba

ca. 1977-1978

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Else Bülow

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Draft letter to Else Bülow, in which Ernest Mancoba thanks Bülow for having entrusted them with the two exhibitions at the Art Association. He also writes that he feels a parallel to his own and Sonja Ferlov Mancoba's artistic project in her words, in a previous letter. 
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Letter draft

Dated immediately after the exhibitions of Sonja Ferlov Mancoba and Ernest Mancoba at the Art Association October-November 1977.
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The exhibitions that Ernest Mancoba refers to are:
Sonja Ferlov Mancoba. A retrospective exhibition. Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, September-October 1977. Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, October-November 1977. Silkeborg Kunstmuseum, Silkeborg, December-January 1977-1978. Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, February-March 1978. Amos Andersons Konstmuseum, Helsinki, April-May 1978. Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, June-July 1978. Fyns Stifts Kunstmuseum, Odense, August-September 1978. Kunstpavillonen, Esbjerg, October 1978. (The information is sourced from the Kunstforeningen exhibition catalog).
Ernest Mancoba exhibited simultaneously at Kunstforeningen. (Troels Andersen, Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Borgen 1979, p. 101.). The exhibition went on to Fyns Stifts Kunstmuseum and Silkeborg Kunstmuseum (Elza Miles, Lifeline out of Africa. The Art of Ernest Mancoba, Human & Rousseau 1994, p. 73) 
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Ferlov Mancoba archive.
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