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Paula Rego

1935 - 2022

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Dame Maria Paula Figueiroa Rego (Portuguese: [ˈpawlɐ ˈʁeɣu]: 26 January 1935 – 8 June 2022) was a Portuguese visual artist, widely considered the pre-eminent woman artist of the late 20th and early 21st century, known particularly for her paintings and prints based on storybooks. Rego's style evolved from abstract towards representational, and she favoured pastels over oils for much of her career. Her work often reflects feminism, coloured by folk-themes from her native Portugal. Rego studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and was an exhibiting member of The London Group, along with David Hockney and Frank Auerbach. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paula Rego is the 607th most popular painter (up from 707th in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from Portugal (up from 153rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Portuguese Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Paula Rego ranks 607 out of 2,023Before her are Joseph Wright of Derby, Eugène Carrière, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Helen Frankenthaler, Juan de Flandes, and Oswald Achenbach. After her are Cornelis van Haarlem, Vlaho Bukovac, Karl von Piloty, Benvenuto Tisi, Léon Cogniet, and Edmund Leighton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Paula Rego ranks 92Before her are Floyd Patterson, Samak Sundaravej, Dinkha IV, Forough Farrokhzad, John Phillips, and Charles Duke. After her are Mary Berry, Ján Popluhár, John G. Avildsen, Yakov Sinai, Hillel Furstenberg, and Masahito, Prince Hitachi. Among people deceased in 2022, Paula Rego ranks 104Before her are Toshiki Kaifu, Patrick Tambay, David Warner, Jürgen Grabowski, Valeri Polyakov, and Borislav Ivkov. After her are A. B. Yehoshua, Coolio, Don L. Lind, Mario Terán, Gal Costa, and David Sassoli.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Paula Rego ranks 139 out of 633Before her are Artur Jorge (1946), Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (1040), Infanta Benedita of Portugal (1746), Maria of Portugal, Queen of Castile (1313), Matilda of Savoy, Queen of Portugal (1125), and Joseph Nasi (1524). After her are Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza (1801), Gil Eanes (null), José, Prince of Brazil (1761), Manuel de Arriaga (1840), Francisco Craveiro Lopes (1894), and José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845).

Among PAINTERS In Portugal

Among painters born in Portugal, Paula Rego ranks 2Before her are Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908). After her are Nuno Gonçalves (1500), Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (1887), José Malhoa (1855), Nadir Afonso (1920), Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (1857), and Helena Almeida (1934).