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\r\nSigned","additional_info":[{"title":"Additional Information","text":"Exhibitions:
\r\n\"Paula Rego\", Casa das Hist\u00f3rias, Cascais, 2018\/2019, Cat. pp. 13 e 51."},{"title":"","text":"In the 1981 and 1982 paintings, Paula Rego invokes beast creatures referring
\r\nto The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges, published in 1957 under the original title Manual de Zoologia Fantastica. Her painting representing
\r\nthe Catoblepas (1981), which in Greek means \u201cthe one who looks down,\u201d is mentioned by Borges in his book. Quoting Pliny (VIII, 32), Borges describes
\r\nthis creature: \u201can animal of moderate size, and in other respects sluggish in
\r\nthe movement of the rest of its limbs; its head is remarkably heavy, and it only carries it with the greatest difficulty, being always bent down towards the earth. Were it not for this circumstance, it would prove the destruction of the human race; for all who behold its eyes, fall dead upon the spot.\u201d Borges also quotes the end of Flaubert's Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874): \u201cThe Catobble, a black buffalo with the head of a hog, hanging close to the ground, joined to its body by
\r\na thin neck, long and loose as an emptied intestine. It wallows in the mud, and
\r\nits legs are smothered under the huge mane of stiff bristles that hide its face.\u201d The 'simplicity' of Rego's paintings contrasts with her complex narratives. The artist's imagination, strongly linked to story tales and popular culture, transports us into a fascinating fantasy world where beasts merge with humans.
\r\n
\r\nLiterature:
\r\nJorge Luis Borges e Margarita Guerrero, 1966 (second edition). El libro de los seres imaginarios. M\u00e9xico: Fondo de Cultura Econ\u00f3mica, p.17."}],"tags":"Modern and Contemporary Art","gallery":[{"image":{"ID":163609,"id":163609,"title":"92_71","filename":"71-2.jpg","filesize":8398990,"url":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71-2.jpg","link":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/lot\/catoblepa-1981-1957155677\/92_71-2\/","alt":"","author":"5529","description":"","caption":"","name":"92_71-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":162972,"date":"2019-10-26 13:10:52","modified":"2019-10-26 13:10:59","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":4563,"height":3333,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71-2-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71-2.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":219,"medium_large":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71-2.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":561,"large":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71-2.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":748,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71-2.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1122,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71-2.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1496,"v_medium":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71-2-640x467.jpg","v_medium-width":640,"v_medium-height":467,"gform-image-choice-sm":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71-2.jpg","gform-image-choice-sm-width":300,"gform-image-choice-sm-height":219,"gform-image-choice-md":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71-2.jpg","gform-image-choice-md-width":400,"gform-image-choice-md-height":292,"gform-image-choice-lg":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71-2.jpg","gform-image-choice-lg-width":600,"gform-image-choice-lg-height":438}},"is_video":false,"video_source":"","video_id":"","use_video_thumbnail":true}],"auction_session":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lot\/162973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lot"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lot"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veritas.art\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}