Born in Mozambique, East Africa (1924-2012)

Bertina Lopes

Omaggio a Venezia, 1975

Oil on canvas
© Bertina Lopes. Photo by Pratik Parulekar.

Bertina Lopes in her studio in Maputo, 1986. Courtesy Archivio Bertina Lopes

“When you start engaging with political specialists, you lose understanding. I believe we all have independent languages, independent ways of expressing ourselves.“

—Bertina Lopes