Lot 80
  • 80

Paula Rego

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Paula Rego
  • Morgana Defey
  • signed and dated 81 on the reverse
  • acrylic on paper
  • 76.8 by 56.5 cm. 30 1/4 by 22 1/4 in.

Provenance

Edward Totah Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the early 1980s

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The sheet is attached verso to the mount in several places. There are artist’s pinholes in all four corners.
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Catalogue Note

“I always know the people in my pictures. Very often they take the form of monkeys and bears and all sorts of things. It’s easier if you make them into animals because you can do things to animals that you can’t do to people because it’s too shocking.”

Paula Rego

quoted in: Ben Eastham and Helen Graham, ‘Interview with Paula Rego’, in The White Review, January 2011, online