The only female artist in the group from the London School, Paula Rego distinguished herself by a strongly figurative, literary, incisive and singular work, as demonstrated by the Tate Britain with its retrospective last year in London.
Born in 1935 in Lisbon, Paula Rego had left Portugal and the oppressive dictatorship of Salazar as a teenager to study in London, where she had lived for more than fifty years.
Trained at the Slade School of Arts, she rubbed shoulders with Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney.
The Tate Britain had brought them together in
All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life
in 2018: she was the only woman to stand up to all these male painters.
This smiling rebel died on June 8 in London at the age of 87.
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Paula Rego,
Study for Jane Eyre
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© courtesy Galerie Sophie Scheidecker
A painter with a theatrical imagination, she has created with virtuosity large polyptychs in pastel that the Musée de l'Orangerie masterfully showed in
"Les contes cruels de Paula Rego"
in the winter of 2018. Inhabited by a…
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