Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
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Paula Rego의 생애 속 이 작품

26 January 1935
Birth in Lisbon
Born in Lisbon; her father is an electrical engineer working for the Marconi Company and is ardently anti-fascist.
early 1962
Begins exhibiting with the London Group
Her artistic career effectively begins in early 1962, when she starts exhibiting with the London Group, a long-established artists’ organization whose members included David Hockney and Frank Auerbach.
1965
First solo show in Lisbon
That same year she has her first solo show, at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes (SNBA) in Lisbon.
1966
Her father’s death; the family firm passes to her husband
Her father dies and the family electrical business is taken over by Victor Willing, although he has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, has no experience of electrical engineering or management, and speaks only limited Portuguese. Her father, worried by his son-in-law’s heavy drinking, had advised the couple to sell the business after his death and return to England.
1969
Represents Portugal at the São Paulo Biennial
She is the Portuguese representative at the São Paulo Art Biennial.
1974
The Carnation Revolution and the failure of the family firm
After the Carnation Revolution, which overthrows the right-wing Estado Novo dictatorship, the family company’s production works are taken over by revolutionary forces, although Rego’s family had been supporters of the Left. The company fails.