★★★★
Paula Rego had a brutal but often funny and mischievous way of describing life as a painter. Few artists have summed up the experience of confronting the great artists of the past as memorably as her: “I got a feeling of a kind of sinking-bowel syndrome whenever I looked at old masters. I felt uncomfortable.”
Image: Paula Rego, Study for Crivelli’s Garden, 1990‑91
Indian ink and wash on paper, 29.5 × 40.5 cm
© Ostrich Arts Ltd
Courtesy Ostrich Arts Ltd and Victoria Miro
July 18 2023
