The Bride, 1972 (painting)

PAULA REGO in the 1970s - Folk Tales and Other Stories is her second exhibition at Casa das Histórias. Its starting-point is the artist's study of Portuguese Folk Tales, a pursuit she would later take further in London, where as a bursar she researched the writers and illustrations of Fairy Tales from the 18th to the 20th century.

Bringing into her paintings and drawings plots taken from these stories, Paula Rego fuses autobiographical passages and an attentive reading of the paradoxes.