Paula Rego

Paula Rego (1935-2022) was an Anglo-Portuguese artist born in Lisbon. Based in London since her studies at the Slade School of Arts, where she encountered Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach and David Hockney, the only female artist in the School of London group, Paula Rego is distinguished by her strongly figurative, incisive and singular work, inhabited by a certain 19th-century literature and visual culture, realist and fantastic, interwoven in a very contemporary way with strongly autobiographical and socio-political elements.