31

Untitled,

Paula Rego (1935-2022)


Estimate

60.000 - 80.000


Session

4 February 2016



Description

From the series ’Dick Whittington’, 1983
Acrylic paint on paper

68x92 cm


Category

Modern and Contemporary Art


Additional Information

Paula Rego is one of the most internationally acclaimed Portuguese
artists. Her artistic activity spans painting, drawing and collage. A vast
iconography of figures and situations from writings by Charlotte Brontë,
Franz Kafka and Eça de Queiroz, paintings by William Hogarth, Portuguese
popular short stories, biblical narratives and children’s short stories feed
the visual imagination of Paula Rego. At the same time, by enhancing the
psychological and sexual mechanisms related to human behaviours, the
art of Paula Rego subverts and destabilizes common accepted notions
regarding social, political and religious themes and mainly the role of
women in the intimate and domestic environment of human relations.
This work is inspired in a well-known English fable, Dick Whittington
and His Cat, about how Richard Whittington (1354–1423), a wealthy
merchant, later Lord Mayor of London, would have escaped to a
childhood of poverty thanks to his cat’s talents.
‘Paula Rego’s New Editions’, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
(2015); ‘Paula Rego: Fabulas Reales’, at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
Gas Natural Fenosa, A Coruña, Spain (2014); ‘As óperas e a Colecção Casa
das Histórias’, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal (2013);
‘Innervisions’, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal (2012);
and ‘A caçadora furtiva’, Fundação EDP, Porto (2011) are some of the
numerous recent exhibitions of the artist.



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