The only female artist in the London School group, Paula Rego is distinguished by a highly figurative, literary, incisive and singular work, which will be presented until early next year by the Musée de l'Orangerie. Born in 1935 in Lisbon, Paula Rego left Portugal and the oppressive Salazar dictatorship as a teenager to study in London, where she has lived for over fifty years. She was trained at the Slade School of Arts, she worked with Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney. As a painter, she works with virtuosity to create great pastel polyptychs. Narrative, squeaky, his paintings seem to come from some cruel tale and evoke the female condition in strange scenes, against the current of social codes. Inspired by models, dolls and masks staged in her studio, Paula Rego creates characters or animals that she transforms and disguises, thus giving birth to sketches composed on large formats, where reality and fiction, dreams and nightmares mix. To see!

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