Brian Cass, Senior Curator, Hayward Gallery Touring, said: “Throughout her life, Paula Rego used print-making as a central tool of her art. Taking inspiration from literature, she connected with stories in very personal ways, using them to articulate the conditions of her own life and draw her desires, dreams, fears, and traumas into sequences of remarkable pictures."
Paula Rego’s Estate commented: "Life with Paula was filled with stories, humour and mischief and she always seemed to have her own, surprising twist on the books she read. She often said that she had the most fun making the prints for
these series because the stories were already laid out for her, but there’s no question that she made
them her own. We’d like to thank Hayward Gallery Touring for mounting this exhibition.”