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Dame Paula Rego RA was born in 1935 in Lisbon, Portugal. She died in London on 8 June 2022. The largest and most comprehensive retrospective of Rego’s work to date was held at Tate Britain in 2021 (7 July–24 October 2021) and travelled to Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands (27 November 2021–20 March 2022), and Museo Picasso Málaga ...
Figures with toy rabbit-heads stumble, bloodied and injured, through a surreal battlefield. Welcome to the fabulous, imaginative world of Portuguese fine artist Paula Rego – a heady and...
Dame Paula Rego, DBE (born 26 January 1935), is a Portuguese visual artist who is particularly known for her paintings and prints based on storybooks. Rego’s style has evolved from abstract towards representational, and she has favoured pastels over oils for much of her career.
- British, Portuguese
- January 26, 1935
- Lisbon, Portugal
Jun 13, 2022 · Recent retrospectives at Tate Britain, the Scottish National Gallery and the Irish Museum of Modern Art caught a mass audience in thrall to the dreamscape of her subjects, where impish creatures run amok and stubborn undergarments impede their heroines.
Jan 24, 2020 · They are unsettling because they communicate some deeply rooted, horrifying darkness that we recognise within ourselves: terrible pain, grief, longing and humiliation. Rego painted her Dog Women in the early 1990s, a few years after the death of her husband, the artist Victor Willing.
Paula Rego, who has died aged 87, was the uncompromising artist who helped to change the way in which women were represented in painting, printmaking and sculpture.
Jun 8, 2022 · The Portuguese-British artist had suffered from a brief illness, according to Victoria Miro, her gallery since 2020. (Rego is also represented by London’s Cristea Roberts Gallery for her prints.) “ Paula was a fearless artist who painted life and the world head-on—a remarkable, dazzling, and powerful force for good and for change.
