Lopes, Bertina

found: Bertina Lopes, 2013:p. 183 (artist, b. July 11, 1924 in Laurençon Marques, now Maputo, Mozambique; studied art in Portugal and lived there for several decades; moved to Rome in 1964 for political reasons; died there on Feb. 10, 2012)

found: Club of Mozambique Website, July 1, 2015(Mozambican artist, Bertina Lopes (1924-2012) was b. in Maputo in 1924, to a white Portuguese father and a black Mozambican mother; "She lived as an African in Europe, as the recovery of gestures and signs which in Africa, earlier than in any other place, time isolated and changed into metaphors: the knot, the net, the eye, the snake, the totem.") - http://www.clubofmozambique.com/solutions1/sectionnews.php?secao=entertainment&id=25488&tipo=one

found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed April 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Lopes, Bertina; painter, sculptor; born 1924 in Maputo, Mozambique; studied in Portugal, earned a degree in painting and sculpture; taught in technical school, Mozanbique (1953-1962); studied ceramics with a Gulbenkian Foundation fellowship, Portugal; remained in exile, moved to Rome; exhibited her art in Rome (1969), later in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, United States, Germany, Russia, in Museu Nacional de Arte in Maputo, Mozambique; created bronze sculptures of human figures and of eimagianed African masks (1980s); had an exhibition in Rome titled Fragments of Distant Lands (2002); was recognized with Grand Prix d'Honneur from the European Union of Art Critics (1988) and was awarded the Rachel Carson Memorial Foundation World Prize (1991); received the international art prize La Plejade in Rome (1998))