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The third edition of this monograph covers the complete career of Paula Rego (b.1935).

Through early collages, paintings using animal characters or the dramatic highlights of opera, pictures of figures and families, and situations inspired by tales and fables, this volume traces Rego's development.

Published to accompany the exhibition held at Marlborough Fine Art Gallery, London, 11 October - 18 November 2006.

Presents a catalogue of the 2007 retrospective exhibition at the Reina Sofia in Madrid, including 250 illustrations of paintings, drawings and prints from 1953 to 2007, interviews with Rego, essays by Marco Livingstone and Robert Hughes, chronology and bibliography.

Paula Rego draws widely from subjects including fairy tales and folk art, her experiences growing up in Portugal under a fascist regime, and from her personal recollections of girlhood and adolescence.00This exhibition focuses on important works from the ?Vivian Girls? series inspired by the Outsider artist, Henry Darger. The ?Vivian Girls? were the heroines of Darger?s thirteen volume novel that concerned the adventures of a group of girls living on a planet controlled by evil soldiers. The girls consistently overcome the soldiers by playing pranks and tricks on them. The anarchic nature of the subject is reflected in the broad range of colour and spontaneous, painterly work. Within each scene, characters and conversations, ideas and incidents, all tumble over one another like folk tales passed down through generations.

Paula Rego: Behind the Scenes offers the reader a unique opportunity to observe the studio life and working practice of one of the most important figurative artists working today. In 1994 Paula Rego took on her own studio in Camden, north London. The space and freedom that this allowed her had a dramatic effect not only on her final works but also on her preparations, models, method and technique. This new book features many unseen and personal photographs of the artist at work and sheds new light on some of her best-known pieces.