"Her studio, in Kentish Town, north London, was a prop room, a wardrobe, a rehearsal stage, a theatre—her playroom. ... Rego also drew on family and friends to enact her scenarios: her daughters, her grand-daughters, and her partner, the writer and publisher Anthony Rudolf. Rudolf has said that he realised early on that if he wanted to have time with Paula, the only way was to sit for her. He appears in many roles, sometimes cross-dressed, at other times naked as Gregor Samsa in the painting Metamorphosis, or the dead Christ in the mysteries of the life of the Virgin, which Rego painted for the president of Portugal in 2002. When no model fitted her vision, she made “dollies”, stuffed, bulbous puppets that she did not disguise, and who like the sinister Pillowman, haunt her most troubling scenes."
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Marina Warner "Remembering Paula Rego: an artist who could realise wondrous and disturbing scenes with unflinching honesty" The Art Newspaper (24 June 2022)
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Paula Rego
Dame Maria Paula Figueiroa Rego (January 16 1935 - June 8 2022) was a Portuguese-British artist known for her work relating to storybooks, feminism, and the country of Portugal.
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