Paula Rego
Dame Paula Rego RA (1935 – 2022), universally recognised as among the most important figurative artists of the past 70 years, was born in Lisbon, Portugal and studied at the Slade School of Art from 1952-56. She was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1989 and was the first Associate Artist at the National Gallery. She was awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of St Andrews, East Anglia, Rhode Island School of Design, the London Institute, Oxford and Roehampton. In 2010 she was made a Dame of the British Empire. Her most recent museum exhibitions have been at the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey in Mexico, Pinacoteca de São Paulo in Brazil, Gulbenkian Museum in Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, Tate Britain and the Picasso Museum in Malaga, National Gallery London and the Kunstmuseum Basel. Among the public collections holding her work are the British Museum, Gulbenkian Foundation, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, National Gallery and Tate Gallery in London.
Stone Soup (regular edition)
Full of the macabre touches and dark humour that have made Paula Rego's reputation, Stone Soup is a new version of the traditional Portuguese folktale by her daughter, the designer and writer, Cas Willing. Typically read to children to encourage cooperation in times of scarcity, the fable has existed in numerous incarnations for centuries. We follow the efforts of a young female traveler in her attempt to save herself from starvation, persuading a suspicious townspeople to supply her with food for her mysterious Stone Soup. All of the thirteen watercolour and ink paintings are reproduced here, bringing together Rego's expressive...
£12.99
Stone Soup Signed Clothbound Edition
Full of the macabre touches and dark humour that have made Paula Rego’s reputation, Stone Soup is a new version of the traditional Portuguese folktale by her daughter, the designer and writer Cas Willing.
The fable has existed in numerous incarnations for centuries. In contrast to many others, the wily protagonist in this version is female. We follow the efforts of a young female traveller in her attempt to save herself from starvation. She persuades suspicious townspeople to supply her with food for her mysterious Stone Soup. Hence, this is a tale typically read to children to encourage cooperation in times of scarcity....
£150.00
Jane Eyre
Since its first publication in this format in 2004, Paula Rego’s Jane Eyre has been a firm favourite with art lovers and readers devoted to Charlotte Brontë's celebrated novel who have relished Rego’s deeply imaginative responses to salient incidents in the story. Now redesigned and extended, Rego’s Jane Eyre impresses all over again with its highly dramatic lithographs and carefully chosen texts, tracing Jane’s progress from the shy bookish girl studying Bewick’s History of British Birds and dreaming of the Arctic seas to the confident young woman who survives the dramas at Thornfield Hall and captures the heart of Mr...
£25.00
Stone Soup: de luxe edition
Full of the macabre touches and dark humour that have contributed to Paula Rego’s reputation, Stone Soup is a new version of the traditional Portuguese folktale by her daughter, the designer and writer Cas Willing.
The fable has existed in numerous incarnations for centuries. In contrast to many others, the wily protagonist in this version is female. We follow the efforts of a young female traveller in her attempt to save herself from starvation. She persuades suspicious townspeople to supply her with food for her mysterious Stone Soup. This is a tale typically read to children to encourage cooperation in times of scarcity....
Artist’s Book£1,950.00
I Have Found a Song: de luxe edition (5 original prints)
I Have Found a Song is a fascinating collection of poems and images published to mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.
It originated in a commission from Arts Council England for 12 poets to write on the theme of enslavement. Interspersed with these are exciting visual contributions by five artists invited by Enitharmon to produce work on the same theme.
This de luxe edition is limited to 35 copies, each accompanied by a portfolio of 5 signed original prints:
Paula Rego 'Death Goes Shopping' (Etching with Aquatint, 460 x 555mm)
Sonia Boyce 'Is this love that I'm feeling?' (Etching,...
Artist’s Book£5,500.00