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Paula Rego DBE (b.1935) - COME TO ME, 2001/02

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Paula Rego DBE (b.1935) - COME TO ME, 2001/02

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Auction Date:2013 Mar 04 @ 18:00 (UTC+1)
Location:RDS Clyde Hall, Anglesea Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
Paula Rego DBE (b.1935) - COME TO ME, 2001/02

lithograph in colours; (no. 14 from an edition of 35)
signed lower right
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39 by 26.5in., 97.5 by 66.25cm.
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Note: This image by Paula Rego of Jane Eyre, was reproduced as a postage stamp by Royal Mail in 2005 as part of a series of stamps using Rego's lithographs based on the Brontë Sisters.In 2001 Paula Rego began work on a substantial series of pastels and lithographs inspired by Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, the culmination of which was shown in the exhibition 'Jane Eyre and Other Stories' at the Marlborough Gallery, London in 2003. Rego was born in Lisbon in 1935. She studied at the Slade School of Art in London between 1952 and 1956. It was at the Slade that Rego met her future husband, the English painter Victor Willing. Following a number of years spent between England and Portugal they permanently settled in London in 1976. Rego enjoyed initial success in Portugal with her semi-abstract, Surrealist style paintings that often incorporated elements of collage. However, it was during the late 1970s that her reputation as a prolific painter and printmaker began to accelerate. Rego shifted from loose semi-abstraction to a more figurative and graphic style of representation, typically displaying the strong lines and clear forms that have become synonymous with her oeuvre. A strong sense of narrative or storytelling is also a quintessential characteristic of a work by Rego who has often found inspiration from the literary works of writers such as Charlotte Brontë, Frans Kafka and J.M. Barrie. Rego has been the subject of a number of career retrospective exhibitions including shows at the Serpentine Gallery in London (1988), the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon (1988), Tate Liverpool (1997), Tate Britain (2005) and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid (2007). Numerous examples of her work can be found in public collections such as the Tate Gallery in London, the British Museum in London and the Yale Center for British Art in Yale USA.Rego is represented by the Marlborough Fine Art Gallery, London and continues to work and live in London. In 2010, Rego was made Dame of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.