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When a Paula Rego retrospective at Tate Britain in London was first suggested, it was welcomed as an irresistible proposal. For, as the show’s curator Elena Crippa observes, there is only a handful of contemporary female artists who have achieved comparable status. And there are not many artists who have made women their subject in the inward, intense and complicated way that Rego has over the decades – painting them in pain, power and surrender. This is the largest show of her career, with more than 100 pieces – paintings, collages, drawings, pastels, etchings, sculptures – many never seen in Britain before. It will be a chance to unriddle the stories the paintings tell and to celebrate an artist
