drawing
- Museum number
- 2008,7024.1
- Description
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Untitled composition with a humanoid toy on the left with its head in a cage, and a lamp at the right. 1963
Acrylic paints, watercolour, crayon and conté chalk on paper
- Production date
- 1963
- Dimensions
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Height: 308 millimetres
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Width: 432 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This drawing was made while Rego was living in Portugal and making periodic visits to England in the early 1960s. From around 1961 she began to produce expressionistic, gestural works on paper which were directly influenced by Dubuffet and which she has described were often 'about obeying authority, disobeying authority, [and] mocking authority' (see her commentaries in 'Paula Rego' (exh. cat.), with essays by Marco Livingstone and Robert Hughes and commentaries by Paula Rego, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 25 Sept.-30 Dec. 2007, p. 249, and her drawings from 1960-61 reproduced on pp.28-9).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2008
- Acquisition notes
- Provenance from the collection of Ron and Anthea Alley, by whom acquired from (or given to them by) the artist
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2008,7024.1
