Remembering Paula Rego

'Paula Rego was a fearless artist who painted life and the world head-on. A remarkable, dazzling, and powerful force for good and for change. I am proud that the gallery has been able to celebrate and promote her work in the last years of her life. We have lost a very great artist'. – Victoria Miro

 

Read artnet's full article 'Friends and Colleagues Remember the Late Artist and Feminist Trailblazer Paula Rego'

 

Publications around the world have reported on and paid tribute to the life of Paula Rego, among them:

 

The New York Times

Her paintings, many of which focused on women’s experiences and perspectives, might depict fear or menace. But it was up to the viewer to fill in the blanks.

 

Apollo Magazine

The Portuguese-British painter told stories of parental abandonment, misogyny and exile with a power that put her in a class of her own.

 

The Washington Post

Drawing on myths, folk tales and her own upbringing under a dictatorship in Portugal, artist Paula Rego made paintings and drawings that were mischievous, menacing and psychologically complex

 

Artforum

In the course of a career spanning eight decades, Rego interwove myths, fairy tales, and modern tropes to create works of deep emotional resonance and frequently devastating societal commentary.

 

Frieze

Remembering Paula Rego’s (1935–2022) Bruising Visions of Womanhood

 

ArtReview

How Paula Rego Stormed the Patriarchal Artworld

 

The New Statesman

At no stage in Paula Rego’s long career was there any pictorial complacency, she just kept on making art “with the hand and the gut” and dragging the dark recesses into the light.

 

The Guardian – Adrian Searle

Difficult psychosexual dramas they may be, they were also the work of an artist who refused to lie down. Her art stands up with the best.

 

The Guardian – Jonathan Jones

She is dancing among the greats: the dangerously honest, richly ambiguous Paula Rego

 

Also in The Guardian, Hettie Judah writes about Rego's Abortion Series

Rego’s works carry us into the heart of this unseen, unspoken terrain

 

The Guardian

‘Indefatigable, curious, 100% original’: female artists remember Paula Rego

 

The Telegraph

Her art delved into the human comedy from an uncharted female point of view

 

Also in The Telegraph, Alastair Sooke writes, 

'A sun in his belly, with a thousand rays: that’s how Pablo Picasso described the incandescent creativity of Henri Matisse. Looking at the work of the Portuguese-born British artist Paula Rego, I’ve long suspected that something similarly white-hot must have burned within her too…'

 

The Times – Rachel Campbell-Johnston

Her pictures are heartfelt revelations...

 

The Financial Times – Jackie Wullschläger

Paula Rego, who has died aged 87, was the world’s greatest woman artist of the past three decades…

 

The Art Newspaper

Paula Rego – known for her mythical depictions of modern femininity – has died, aged 87

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 8 2022