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Dame Paula Rego R.A.(1935-2022)The Night Crow, 1994
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Dame Paula Rego R.A. (1935-2022)
The Night Crow, 1994
signed, titled, inscribed 'A/P', one of 14 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 20, and dedicated 'with best wishes for 1994.' in pencil
etching with aquatint
39 x 29.2cm (15 3/8 x 11 1/2in).
Printed by Paul Coldwell at Culford Press, with their blindstamp, co-published by the artist and Marlborough Graphics, London
signed, titled, inscribed 'A/P', one of 14 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 20, and dedicated 'with best wishes for 1994.' in pencil
etching with aquatint
39 x 29.2cm (15 3/8 x 11 1/2in).
Printed by Paul Coldwell at Culford Press, with their blindstamp, co-published by the artist and Marlborough Graphics, London
Footnotes
Provenance
Gifted to Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil, DBE, FRSL by the artist, 1994.
Inherited from the above by the present owner.
Literature
T. G. Rosenthal, Paula Rego the complete graphic work, Thames and Hudson, London, 2012, no. 110.
The late Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil was an Australian publisher, writer and critic, whose career was mainly spent in the United Kingdom.
She founded Virago Press in 1973, a publishing house that was born with the intent of representing women writers in the mass-market, in one of the many male-dominated industries at the time.
In 'The Night Crow', the bird is depicted in a commanding pose against a glittering night sky, its glistening feathers reflecting the shine from the stars, an effect achieved through Rego's masterful use of the aquatint technique. The result appears to be the perfect incarnation of Ted Hughes' verses "Crow was so much blacker/ Than the moon's shadow/ He had stars." from his 1973 poem 'Crowcolour'.