The internationally acclaimed Portuguese-British artist has died aged 87. Here we look back on her extraordinary career and body of work
. Rego let him into her life for a brutally honest BBC film about the depression that almost killed her – and the self-portraits she made to surviveThe Dance, 1988, is a large painting featuring eight figures dancing on a beach in the moonlight.
The scale of the work seems out of kilter, with the solitary woman seeming larger. At the time, this was the largest painting Rego had created, and it was completed in London, where Rego moved permanently in 1976.Rego on ITV’s South Bank Show in 1987, six years after her first London show, at the AIR gallery.
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