| LC control no. | n 92045837 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rego, Paula |
| Variant(s) | Rego, Maria Paula Figueiroa Figueiroa Rego, Maria Paula |
| Other standard no. | 0000000078231336 85382368 Q235318 |
| Associated country | Portugal Great Britain |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1935-01-26 |
| Death date | 2022-06-08 |
| Place of birth | Lisbon (Portugal) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Art Figurative art Painting Collage Pastel drawing |
| Affiliation | Slade School of Fine Art Casa das Histórias Paula Rego |
| Profession or occupation | Artists |
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| Found in | McEwen, J. Paula Rego, 1992. Obalk, H. Paula Rego, 1991: p. 46 (b. 1935 in Lisbon, Portugal) Stone soup, 2014: t.p. (Paula Rego) Wikipedia, 15 June 2016: Paula Rego (DBE, she is a Portuguese visual artist who is particularly known for her paintings and prints based on storybooks, she was born on 26 January 1935) New York times, 9 July 2021: in an exhibition review on page C11 entitled, "Celebrating a mischievous talent" (Paula Rego, born in Lisbon [Portugal] in 1935; when she was 16, her parents sent her to a finishing school in Kent [England], and in the early 1950s, she studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London; Rego has lived in Britain, on and off, since the 1950s; despite Britain's famously prudish nature, Rego's mischievous scenes have made her a national treasure: in 2010 Queen Elizabeth II made Rego, 86, a Dame Commander, one of the country's highest honors) Washington post WWW site, viewed June 10, 2022 (in obituary dated June 9, 2022: artist Paula Rego; Ms. Rego was 87 when she died June 8 at her home in northern London. Maria Paula Figueiroa Rego was born in Lisbon on Jan. 26, 1935) New York times, 13 June 2022: in an obituary on page A22 (Paula Rego; born Maria Paula Paiva de Figueiroa Rego on Jan. 26, 1935 in Lisbon, died on Wednesday [8 June 2022] in North London, aged 87; in extraordinary artworks over 70 years [Rego] could be menacing, unsettling, playful or all of those at once, her paintings suggesting macabre stories but inviting viewers to fill in the details; in 2009 in Cascais, west of Lisbon, a museum devoted to her work and that of her husband opened, but Ms. Rego didn't want it to be called a museum. Instead it is the Casa das Histórias -- the House of Stories) |
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