Zulu painter Ernest Mancoba, exiled in France since 1938, has died in hospital at Clamart near Paris aged 98, his family said on Sunday.
The painter, who married Danish sculptor Sonja Ferlov in 1942, died on Friday.
Mancoba and Ferlov, who died in 1984, had been part of the ephemeral post-war anti-surrealist art movement Cobra ? a contraction of Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam, where its members came from.
Ernest Mancoba returned to South Africa for the first time in 1994 for a retrospective of his work and that of his wife.
After studying to be a teacher in Pietersburg, Mancoba taught English and Zulu while working on sculpture and painting. He then went over full-time to drawing and painting.
His work is typical of the Cobra movement, halfway between abstract and figurative. – Sapa-AFP