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Dame Paula Rego R.A.
(British, 1935-2022)
Ride a Cock-Horse, from Nursery Rhymes

Blazing a Trail: Modern British Women

20 September 2023, 15:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £3,840 inc. premium

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Dame Paula Rego R.A. (British, 1935-2022)

Ride a Cock-Horse, from Nursery Rhymes
signed and inscribed A/P in pencil, one of 14 artist's proofs aside from the edition of fifty
Etching and aquatint with hand-colouring by Charlotte Hodes, 1989
52 x 38cm (20 1/2 x 14 15/16in).
printed by Culford Press, London, with their blindstamp, published by the artist and Marlborough Graphics, London

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Literature
T.G. Rosenthal, Paula Rego The Complete Graphic Work, Thames & Hudson, London, 2012 (R.42)

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