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“Yes! Paula Rego is one of the leading figurative artists of her generation. signedUp: { Folded into her chair, she searches for the correct answers, but when they appear they’re well-worn, photocopies.

“No. She is known for her clear modernist elements in her designs. 2015 was a good year for Portugese artist Paula Rego, who saw two of her paintings, which resemble storybook illustrations, fetch high sums at Sotheby’s auction in June: The cadet and his sister took home nearly $1.8 million while Looking out was claimed at a little over $1.5 million.

You can do anything you like in a drawing, anything.”, It seems, I tell her, as if her dream world is lived out on the paper or canvas. sensitivity: 50, And what about Damien Hirst? Not to be outpaced, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who currently ranks as the most expensive living female artist on aggregate, takes a firm second place with the sale of White No. Some women are bigger than others. Want to stay ahead of the art world? She further went on to receive honorary degrees - a Master of Arts from the Winchester School of Art in 1992, Doctorate of Letters from the University of St Andrews and the University of East Anglia, both in 1999 [16], the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000, the London Institute in 2002 and the University of Oxford and Roehampton University in 2005. init: function (formElement, onSuccess) { // Signup submission + ''

‘In her work women are strong but compliant’: Paula Rego’s La Fete, 2003. Her painting, Meu Limão, took home $2,098,500 in a 2012 Sotheby’s auction. South African artist Marlene Dumas claims fourth place with a Sotheby’s sale of her 1995 painting The Visitor, which fetched nearly $6.5 million in 2008.

There’s a moment in old age when some people become a little girl again, and it’s at this point in her life that I meet Dame Paula Rego, the 83-year-old artist who has always been fascinated by fairytales.

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Plan, a canvas painted in 1993, took home $3,491,681 at a Christie’s auction in 2014. crossDomain: true, found = true; There's drama. The “grotesque” is there for all to see: in old women breastfeeding children, in witches, and skeletons, and giant spiders, and women cradling men who look as if they're dying. Dead Dad, 1996. setNewsletterCookie('closedSignupBar', 1);

A surreal universe of Leonora Carrington is based on a variety of influences including Celtic literature, Renaissance painting, Central American folk art, alchemy, and intensely personal symbolism. I've just asked her how long she's been working in this studio, which used to be a picture-framing workshop, and which you enter through a very scruffy, and almost secret, door. + '