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80 51 Dame Paula Rego DBE RA GCSE GOSE GColCa (1935-2022) GETTING READY FOR THE BALL, FROM JANE EYRE, 2001/2 [TRIPTYCH] lithograph; (no. 15 from an edition of 35); (framed separately) first two panels signed with initials lower left and lower right respectively; third panel signed and numbered lower right 32.50 by 70.75in. (82.6 by 179.7cm) Frame Size: 39 by 29.75 (99.1 by 75.6cm) Provenance: Blue Leaf Gallery, Dublin, 2002; Private collection Born in Portugal in 1935, Paula Rego trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Her work is highly figurative, and often relates specifically to folk tales, fairy tales, children’s literature and nursery rhymes. Rego lives and works in London and has exhibited widely in Britain and internationally. Since 2004, major retrospectives of her work have been held at Tate Britain, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. She was appointed a Grand Officer of the Order of Saint James of the Sword by the President of Portugal in 1995 and a Grand Cross of the order in 2004, and was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours. In 2019, she was awarded the Portuguese government’s Medal of Cultural Merit. €5,000-€7,000 (£4,240-£5,930 approx.) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot51