Paula Rego (b. 1935)

Name: Untitled (Abortion Series): 7 Plates
Brand: Paula Rego (b. 1935)
Price: 8000.00 GBP
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Price Realised GBP 10,000

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Closed: 19 Mar 2015

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Untitled (Abortion Series): 7 Plates

Paula Rego (b. 1935)

Price Realised GBP 10,000

Closed: 19 Mar 2015

Price Realised GBP 10,000

Closed: 19 Mar 2015

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Paula Rego (b. 1935)
Untitled (Abortion Series): 7 Plates
seven etchings, from the series of eight, on wove paper, 1999
each signed in pencil, numbered 11/17, there were also 14 artist's proofs
published by the artist and Marlborough Graphics, London, printed by Culford Press, London, with their blindstamp
Image: 196 x 297 mm., Sheet: 380 x 480 mm. (each)
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LITERATURE

Rosenthal 160-166.

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In 1998 Paula Rego executed a series of pastels triggered by the referendum in Portugal to review the law censoring legal abortion. Describing her feelings at the time she said: "I got angry because I'd seen it all in Portugal- the suffering that went on when abortion was totally illegal. It was mind-boggling. There was so much suffering" (quoted in Paula Rego interviewed by Edward King, February 2001, , p. 11). Unusually for Rego, who never replicates her paintings in graphic form, she produced a series of etchings of the paintings, a political decision motivated by her desire to spread her strongly held convictions on this issue. This important series in the artist's oeuvre is held in the collection of the Tate.