The final bid for Lot 05, which included the set of 26 inks waters and etchings, was 18,000 pounds (25,000 euros), below the estimate base between 20,000 and 30,000 pounds (28,000 to 41,000 euros) .
Also the series “Peter Pan,” 15 graphics inspired by the work of JM Barrie, it was for 12,000 pounds (17,000 euros), short of between 15,000 base estimate of 20,000 pounds (21,000 to 28,000 pounds).
The auction, the total result the auction did not, was held for a week exclusively on the Internet and included 54 lots of the Portuguese graphic artist work rooted in the UK, covering more than 30 years of work.
The pieces, most of which inspired stories and children’s books, belonged to a Portuguese collector unidentified.
The Portuguese painter began to draw as a child and went to the British capital with only 17 to study at the Slade School of Fine Art.
In London met her future husband, British artist Victor Willing, who died in 1988, whose work Paula Rego has shown several times at the museum House of Stories, Cascais, which holds a collection of works of the author.
In Paula Rego painting arise many typical childhood pictures sometimes fetishists and even traumatic, related to violence, and the animals are often the protagonists of his pictorial language.
In recent decades, the painter has addressed political issues, such as abuse of power, and social, such as abortion, among other feminine universe.
Paula Rego, who turned 80 in January, was honored in 2010 by Queen Elizabeth II to the degree of Official OBE for his contribution to the arts.
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