Artist
Sonja Sekula
Swiss, 1918–1963
Sonja Sekula was a Swiss Abstract Expressionism artist. 6 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Sonja Sekula was born in Lucerne.
Sonja Sekula (8 April 1918 – 25 April 1963) (also known as Sonia Sekula) was an American artist linked with the abstract expressionist movement, notable for her activity as an "out" lesbian in the New York art world during the 1940s and early 1950s. She met the surrealists in exile in New York during 1942. On 25 April 1963, she hanged herself in her studio in Zurich after many years of mental health issues. She is buried in St. Moritz as she had requested in a letter to her mother.
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