PAULA REGO R.A. (BRITISH/PORTUGESE 1935-2022) §
IN THE COMFORT OF THE BONNET (ROSENTHAL 204) - 2001-2
Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000
Auction: 13 AUGUST 2024 from 15:00 BST
Description
Lithograph, ed. 35, signed in pencil, printed at Curwen Studio, Cambridge, published by the Artist and Marlborough Graphics
Dimensions
the sheet 98.5cm x 73.5cm (38.75in x 28.75in), unframed
Footnote
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre proved to be a rich source of inspiration for Paula Rego, who often turned to existing literary narratives as the basis of her striking figurative work. As Marina Warner explains ‘Brontë and Paula Rego share an imaginative ardour that abolishes the veil between what takes place in fact and in fantasy. As storytellers, they really are kith and kin: Rego reproduces the psychological drama in the book through distortions of scale, cruel expressiveness of gesture, and disturbingly stark contrasts of light and welling shadows’ (‘An artist's dream world: Paula Rego’, Tate Research Publication, 2003).