Portuguese painter Paula Rego, one of the best-known international artists died at dawn in London 87 years old, reported the Luis I Foundation associated with its creator.
“We don’t know why. We know it is. a disease that reached him four days ago, Salvato Teles de Menezes, head of the Luis I Foundation, explained to Efe after meeting with Rego’s relatives. health problems, including recent covid transmission.
“Culture Portuguese loses one of its most important and irreverent creators, “This is a national loss,” the Portuguese president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, underlined Rego’s importance as an artist and his great international projection.
Born in Lisbon in 1935, Paula Rego She was educated in London and settled in the city after marrying British painter Victor Willing in the 1970s. with whom he had three children. In 2009, the Story House, a museum of works associated with the Louis I Foundation, opened in Cascais on the outskirts of Lisbon. Rego was awarded the Turner awards, the Order of the British Empire, and the Order of the British Empire, among others. Portuguese Government Medal of Cultural Merit.