Audio file 76-2

[continues from 76-1] Wonga speaks of consequences of inhumanity; Wonga continues about pre-Columbian civilisations and the spirituality in their art

Wonga asks Ernest to speak of his and Sonja meetings when Ernest was living in Rue du Guerre; Wonga recaps visits to Musée de l'Homme and meeting Picasso at the new exhibition of African arts

[tape stopped and restarts several times] Wonga speaks of Sonja befriending Max Ernst through his companion Marie-Berthe Aurenche; that Sonja played a role in the Ernst work "Bonjour Santanas" being acquired for the Danish public collection

Max Ernst, "Bonjour Santanas" (1928), "Une Semaine de Bonté" and "La Femme 100 Têtes", artist books

Wonga continues that Sonja befriended Brancusi, Henri Laurens and his wife; Wonga asks if Ernest accompanied Sonja but Ernest is confused and wants to know what they have been speaking of

[tape stopped and restarts] Wonga recaps for Ernest that they spoke about Sonja seeing the International Exposition of Art and Technology of 1938 with the German and Russian pavillions; of Sonja visiting Charles Ratton exhibitions on African art; of the similar appreciative viewpoints on African art of Ratton, Carl Kjersmeier, and Paul Guillaume

Wonga returns to French artists that Sonja met: Brancusi, whose studio she visited, Max Ernst, whose painting she helped the Danish Museum acquire - that she was friends with Marie-Berthe Aurenche

Wonga speaks of Ernst's collages such as "Une Semaine de Bonté" and "La Femmes 100 Têtes" as criticisms of the Catholic church; Wonga recounts Sonja being given the collages by Marie-Berthe but that when Ernst found out, he took them back

Wonga speaks of Sonja being close friends with Francis Gruber and his mother

Wonga asks about their relationships with Giacometti

[tape ends]