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Rego has 43 works in the collection of the British Council, 10 works in the collection of the Arts Council of England, 46 works in the Tate Gallery, London, and works in the British Government Art Collection, the British Museum, and the municipal collections of the cities of Bristol, Leicester, Rugby and Leeds in the United Kingdom, and the collections of the Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Portugal, the Chapel of the Palacio de Belém, Portugal, the Frissiras Museum, Greece, and the Yale Center for British Art, in the USA.
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Rego has described herself as having become a ' sort of Catholic ', but equally she possessed as a child a sense of Catholic guilt and a very real belief that the Devil is real.
Rego was signed by the London based gallery Marlborough Fine Art in 1987, and has shown there on numerous occasions, including a series of works based on Peter Pan in 1992, the celebrated ' Dog Woman ' series in 1994, and ' Oratorio ', a triptych format altarpiece, in 2010 created for the exhibition ' Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin & Paula Rego at the Foundling Museum ', held at the Foundling Museum, London.
This antithesis of what is considered feminine behaviour, and many other works in which there appears to be either the threat of female violence or its actual manifestation, has associated Rego with feminism, and she has acknowledged reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, a key feminist text, at a young age and this making a deep impression on her.
However Rego has been known to slap down critics who read too much sexual connotation into her work.
Rego has many sports teams, including rugby, swimming, netball, basketball and volleyball.
Rego and works
Although Rego was commissioned by her father to produce a series of large scale murals to decorate the works ' canteen at his electrical factory in 1954 whilst she was still a student, Rego's artistic career effectively began in the early 1962 when she began showing with The London Group, a long established artists ' organisation which included David Hockney and Frank Auerbach among its members.
In 2008 Rego showed at Marlborough Chelsea in New York, and staged a retrospective of her graphic works at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes.
Yet in her earliest works, such as Always at Your Excellency's Service, painted in 1961, Rego was strongly influenced by Surrealism, particularly the work of Juan Miro.
This manifested itself not only in the type of imagery that appeared in these works but in the method Rego employed which was based on the Surrealist idea of automatic drawing, in which the artist attempts to disengage the conscious mind from the making process to allow the unconscious mind to direct the image making.
Other published works include Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper ( 1986 ), written in Yorkshire dialect, and Pendle Witches ( 1996 ), illustrated with etchings by Paula Rego.
Rego and collection
The University College of London's Slade School of Fine Art houses a collection of handmade Christmas Cards from alumni such as Paula Rego and Richard Hamilton and are displayed at events over the Christmas season, when members of the public can make their own Christmas cards in the Strang Print Room.
' As the National Gallery is overwhelmingly an Old Master collection Rego seems to have been pulled back towards a much clearer, or tighter, linear style that is reminiscent of the highly wrought drawing technique she would have been taught at the Slade.
Permanent collection includes George Romney, JMW Turner, John Ruskin, Ben Nicholson, Paula Rego, Lucian Freud, Stanley Spencer and Barbara Hepworth.
Rego and British
Paula Rego ( born 1935 ) is a painter born in Portugal although she is a naturalised British citizen.
Heavenly Creatures – Paula Rego and Ron Mueck, The British School at Rome,
Victor Willing: Inevitable Prohibitions ; Ruth Rosengarten, La Règle du Jeu and John McEwen In Conversation with Paula Rego, Bernardo Pinto de Almeida Paula no Pais das Maravilhas, Paula Rego, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon and Serpentine Gallery, LondonLewis Biggs: A context for the exhibitions, Cries and Whispers, British Council
Paula Rego, Celestina ’ s House, Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal & Yale Center for British Art.
Rego and 10
The current president Antonio Augusto de Abreu as been in charge as chairman of Portuguesa for more than 10 years, The 2010 elections decided that João Maria do Rego Gonçalves will take the charge as chairman through 2011-2013.
Rego and Arts
Paula Rego – Pendle Witches, Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, Linden Mill, Hebden Bridge, N. Yorkshire, 18 June – 20 July
Rego and Tate
Paula Rego in Focus, Tate Britain,
Paula Rego Retrospective exhibition, Tate Gallery Liverpool, 8 February -
Christina Bagatavicius, Paula Rego in Focus, Tate Britain, October 2004-January 2005
Paula Rego, Tate Gallery Publications
Fiona Bradley, Paula Rego, Tate Publishing
Fiona Bradley, Paula Rego, Tate Publishing
* Tate Gallery, Paula Rego ( London: Tate Publishing, 1997 )
* Fiona Bradley Paula Rego, Tate Publishing, 2002
* Tate: In the Studio: Paula Rego Printmaking with the artist at The Curwen Studio.
Rego and Gallery
In 1988 Rego was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and the Serpentine Gallery in London.
This led on to Rego being invited to become the first ' Associate Artist ' at the National Gallery, London in 1990, in what was the first of a series of artist-in-residence schemes organised by the gallery.
Paula Rego, Celestina ’ s House, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal,
Open Secrets – Drawings and Etchings by Paula Rego, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA, 18 September – 23 October ; Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, 16 November – 20 December, curated by Memory Holloway ; text by Memory Holloway and Ruth Rosengarten
Paula Rego – The Sins of Father Amaro, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 17 June-19 July
Paula Rego ‑ Nursery Rhymes, Marlborough Graphics Gallery, London
John Murphy, Avis Newman, Paula Rego, The Saatchi Gallery, London
Paula Rego: Girl and Dog, Edward Totah Gallery, London,
Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Paula Rego, Dulwich Picture Gallery
Rego and London
Unhappy here, Rego attempted in 1952 to start studies in art at the Chelsea School of Art in London, but this was thwarted by her legal guardian in Britain, David Phillips, who feared her parents might not approve of their daughter mixing with art students.
Returning to Portugal for the holidays that summer Rego discovered quite the opposite was true, and so she applied to study art in London again, this time at the Slade School of Fine Art, which she attended from 1952 to 1956.
Rego and Willing left London to live in Portugal with Rego's parents in 1957, and they were able to marry in 1959 following Willing's divorce.
As a result Rego, Willing and their children moved permanently to London and spent most of their time there until Willing's death in 1988.
Rego is represented by Marlborough Fine Art, London.
Paula Rego, Dog Women, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Paula Rego Peter Pan & Other Stories, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Alberto de Lacerda: ' Fragmentos de um poema intitulado Paula Rego ', Paula Rego, SNBA, LisbonVictor Willing: Six Artists, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1965
Paula Rego: Dog Women, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Paula Rego: The Dancing Ostriches from Disney's Fantasia, Marlborough Fine Art, London and Saatchi Collection, London.
Paula Rego: The Dancing Ostriches from Disney's Fantasia, Marlborough Fine Art, London and Saatchi Collection, London.
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