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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.
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Rego was born in the Portuguese capital Lisbon, the daughter of an electrical engineer who worked for the Marconi Company.
Rego's family were keen Anglophiles, and Rego was sent to the only English language school in Portugal at the time, Saint Julian's School in Carcavelos from 1945 to 1951.
In 1951 Rego was sent to the United Kingdom to attend a finishing school called The Grove School, in Sevenoaks, Kent.
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.
At the Slade Rego met her future husband, Victor Willing, also a student at the Slade, although he was already married at the time.
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 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.
In 2009 a museum dedicated to Rego's work and named ' The House of Stories ; Paula Rego ' was opened in the Portuguese town of Cascais, and several key exhibitions of her work have since been staged here.
Rego is a prolific painter and printmaker, and in earlier years was also a producer of collage work.
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.
But Rego was also reacting against her training at the Slade School, where a very strong emphasis had been placed on anatomical figure drawing.
Each member was easily recognizable: Gérard Rinaldi was the straight good-looking one, with the crooner voice, Jean Sarrus was the small one with the moustache and funny mimics, Gérard Filipelli was the tall blonde dreamer who often found himself accidentally bare-assed in their films, Luis Rego was the sarcastic Portuguese one and Jean-Guy Fechner was the tall one a big bushy beard.
In 1965, while he was vacationing in Portugal ( his home country ), Luis Rego was imprisoned for a few months under the Salazar regime, for desertion and rebellion.
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And although the first Fado lyrics were mostly anonymous, successively transmitted by oral tradition, this would definitely be reverted in the mid-1920s, when several popular poets emerged, such as Henrique Rego, João da Mata, Gabriel de Oliveira, Frederico de Brito, Carlos Conde and João Linhares Barbosa, who gave special attention to fado.
Accompanied by Rego's mother, they left Rego behind in Portugal in the care of her grandmother until 1939.
Rego is represented by Marlborough Fine Art, London.
Under the encouragement of her fellow student and later husband Victor Willing, Rego kept a ' secret sketchbook ', alongside her official school sketchbooks, whilst at the Slade, in which she made free form drawings of a type that would have been frowned upon by her tutors.
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
João Fernandes, Introduction and The Stories by Paula Rego, between Painting and Drawing: Ruth Rosengarten: Possessed: Love and Authority in the work of Paula Rego ; Marco Livingstone: All that is left behind.
Colin Wiggins, Paula Rego, Dictionary of Women Artists, Volume I, pp 1155 – 1159, edited by Delia Gaze, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London
Stephen Stuart-Smith with introduction by Marina Warner, Paula Rego – Jane Eyre, Enitharmon Editions, London
Colin Wiggins, Paula Rego, Dictionary of Women Artists, Volume I, pp 1155 – 1159, edited by Delia Gaze, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London
Stephen Stuart-Smith with introduction by Marina Warner, Paula Rego – Jane Eyre, Enitharmon Editions, London
It is neighbored by Flushing to the east, Jackson Heights to the west, Forest Hills and Rego Park to the south, Elmhurst to the southwest, and East Elmhurst to the north.
The opening exhibition included a retrospective by Damien Hirst, as well as work by other YBAs, such as Jake and Dinos Chapman and Tracey Emin alongside some longer-established artists including John Bratby, Paula Rego and Patrick Caulfield.
In 1964, they were joined by Luis Rego, then in 1965 by Gérard Filipelli and Donald Rieubon on drums.
Most of the songs were written by Rinaldi, more occasionally by Sarrus or Rego.
Rego and London
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 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.
Paula Rego – The Sins of Father Amaro, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 17 June-19 July
Paula Rego, Dog Women, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Paula Rego Peter Pan & Other Stories, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Paula Rego ‑ Nursery Rhymes, Marlborough Graphics Gallery, London
John Murphy, Avis Newman, Paula Rego, The Saatchi Gallery, 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: Girl and Dog, Edward Totah Gallery, London,
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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