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Details
- Date
- 1989
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching and acquatint
- Edition
- 43/50 [edition of 50 plus 14 AP]
- Dimensions
- 33.2 x 51.8 cm platemark; 56.2 x 76.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. sheet, pencil "Paula Rego". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Douglas Kagi 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 458.2018
- Copyright
- © Dame Paula Rego/DACS. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Paula Rego
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About
Portuguese-born figurative artist Paula Rego was a teller of stories. From an early age she had a fascination with fairy tales, beginning with the traditional Portuguese folktales told to her by her grandmother. In 1989 she produced a portfolio of etchings and acquaints titled 'The nursery rhymes' that were based on drawings she made for her two-year-old granddaughter. Animals and props feature heavily in her work, and in this humorous suite of prints she has had fun reversing roles and distorting the scale of creatures and objects.
'The encampment' was created directly following 'The nursery rhymes'. At first glance we see a starry night-time campsite scene, but when we look closely Rego’s dark humour and attention to detail becomes evident. The picture is filled with beautifully illuminated families engrossed in the sharing of bedtime stories, roaming livestock, howling dogs and an oversized toad being piggybacked.