Exhibition “Everyday stories. Paula Rego, the 70s”
An exhibition showing the painter’s artistic creation between 1969 and the end of the following decade can be seen until May 21 at the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego. Entitled Everyday stories. Paula Rego, the 70s, this exhibition brings together about 115 works that Paula Rego created during that period, paintings, and drawings, inspired by fairy tales and other children’s stories, and a set of documentation from the period that is part of the Gulbenkian Archives collection.
It is a set of documents about the research work that Paula Rego carried out in London (1976-1978) on The illustration of the collective unconscious in traditional tales, for which the Fine Arts Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation granted her monetary support: two reports with photographs, and two handwritten notebooks, with collages, resulting from the artist’s research on fairy-tale illustrators, and a handwritten text entitled Some origins of fairy tales.
