Bertina Lopes
Mozambican-Italian painter and sculptor
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Bertina Lopes was a Mozambican-born, Italian painter and sculptor. Lopes' work displays a deep African sensibility with saturated colours and bold compositions of mask-like figures and geometric forms. Wikipedia
Born: July 11, 1924, Maputo, Mozambique
Died: February 10, 2012 (age 87 years), Rome, Italy
Partner: Virgílio de Lemos
Education: Lisbon School of Fine Arts
Nationality: Italian and Mozambican
Movement: Abstract Expressionism