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...It has been a gradual demise for the gallery, which was founded by Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer in 1946 and in its postwar heyday boasted the likes of Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach and Paula Rego on its...
...Frank recalls, “We looked at each other and said, ‘Well, what have we done?’”...
...She reports recent interest from US museums in Rego’s work and says that a Northern Ireland museum has bought one of each of Rego’s and Gerrard’s work from the show, which runs until March 4....
...Elfin, with auburn hair, bright blue eyes and spiky features, she was immensely warm, and incapable of pomposity — a presence as original, frank and electrifying as her art....
...Frank in its realism, the “Abortion” series (1999), including schoolgirls in uniform, was made at the time of Portugal’s abortion referendum....
...Yet Paula Rego at Tate Britain rang out magnificently for its radicalism — no painter has more inventively subverted male tradition to express women’s experience....
...Paula Rego, still with us at 85, is a classic in her own lifetime....
...Both playful and rich with history is one of the most powerful pieces on display: “The Old Republic” (2005) by Paula Rego....
...But Paula Rego, Bridget Riley, Auerbach, Hockney (presiding, as I write, over a massive new show in New York) and Allen Jones are with us still and working....
...Rego and Paul, distillers of domestic experience, are terrific artists....
...She consented to be filmed and BBC2’s Paula Rego: Secrets and Stories (Saturday 9pm) is the result: a mix of archive footage, home movies, interviews and, above all, the artist herself — frank, outspoken...
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...An irritatingly uneven selection, too content in the second division – no Hockney, Hodgkin, Rego, Doig – yet one far more interesting, ambitious and provocative than Tate Britain’s dreary attempt this winter...
...Here there are some staggering mistakes – a room devoted to dreary Rose Wylie but not a single work by pioneering Paula Rego; tepid Fiona Rae instead of unsettling Cecily Brown....
...Few leading British painters are academicians: not Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Paula Rego. Can the RA survive?...
...Several such artists resisted fashion for decades but became famous anyway – Frank Auerbach, Howard Hodgkin....
...Holbein, Freud, Rego and Kapoor are all absent, although Tate owns such important works as Freud’s “Girl with a Kitten” (1947), Rego’s “The Dance” (1988) and Kapoor’s “Ishi’s Light” (2003)....
...Paula Rego, artist. Alison Richard, vice-chancellor, University of Cambridge. Naila Zaffar, headteacher, Copthorne primary school. COMMANDER, CBE Simon Armitage, poet....
...More a showcase of subjects than of artists, this popular museum also is home to unshown examples of 21st-century portraiture such as Paula Rego’s “Germaine Greer” and Maggi Hambling’s “(Alan) George Heywood...
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