A tender scene by the late Afro-Nicaraguan artist and poet June Beer. Beer’s vibrant, stylised paintings comprise mainly of elegant portraits of female figures—as per this beautifully rendered woman and her plumed pal—and scenes of everyday life among the African and indigenous communities living on Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast. She was self-taught and came to fame as an artist late in life. After her death, however, the Nicaraguan government declared four of her works part of the national patrimony (meaning they cannot be removed from the country), affirming the importance of her cultural legacy.
