About the Artist

The Prey © Paula Rego Click here to see more detail.

What the artist says about the picture
'Two little girls are being stalked by a predator. In spite of their solidity and strength, they are the prey. Behind them a fox has caught a young bird. The predator, or the spectator, can pick up a mallet which is in the foreground, smash up the temple, and squash open the tender figs.' Paula Rego

Germaine Greer on Paula Rego
'Since she began painting seriously in 1953, Paula Rego's work has proceeded to maturity through a series of remarkable transformations; the vividness of pre-feminine childhood experience burns through encounter after encounter with great art, with popular art, with fashion and fairy-story to create a women's realm beyond the confines of gender in the illimitable space of the imagination.' Germaine Greer

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