The Lady of the Fern

Luz Negib is a Peruvian painter who trained in London. She has experimented with abstract painting, as well as the figurative form we see here.
In The Lady of the Fern, painted in the early 1980s, we see a middle-aged woman with an aristocratic demeanor, reclining in an armchair, with a cigarette in her hand and her gaze directed towards the viewer.
The artist has used this painting to explore the expressive and playful possibilities of color. In addition, she addresses the female presence in a new time, in which the notions of feminine and masculine are redefined.