Paula Rego

Paula Rego generously made the limited edition, Rumpelstiltskin, in 2016 in support of Tate. The limited edition of 40 is sold out, but we are pleased to be able to offer the last print from the five signed and numbered Directors’ Reserves*. This is the last available edition of this artwork.

Rego said of the edition: 'The miller’s daughter is distraught. She has a roomful of straw which the king wants her to spin into gold and she doesn’t know how to do it. Rumpelstiltskin promises to help but she’s frightened he’ll take the gold away with him.'

*Directors’ Reserves (or DRs) are an extra smaller edition that exists outside of the limited edition. They are produced as a way for a non-profit institution to raise extra funds after the edition has sold out and are signed and numbered by the artist.

• Artist Paula Rego
• Artwork Rumpelstiltskin
• Dimensions 45.5 x 56 cm
• Material Four plate etching printed with gold ink overlay on 300gsm Somerset Velvet
• Edition DR 5
• Date of work 2016

Paula Rego (b. 1935, Lisbon, Portugal) is a leading artist of her generation and has played a key role in redefining figurative art in the UK and internationally. Her ever-evolving artistic practice included painting, pastel, collage, etching, watercolour and sculpture and spans from the mid-1950s to the her final years. Rego studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and has received honorary doctorates from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, the University of East Anglia, Norwich, the Rhode Island School of Design, USA, The London Institute, Roehampton University, London, and Oxford University. In 2010 she was made a Dame of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours and won the Mapfre Foundation Drawing Prize, Madrid. Rego’s work has been exhibited widely across the world and is part of many public collections including the Arts Council Collection, UK; British Council Collection, UK; British Museum, London, UK; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; National Gallery, London; Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal; and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK. She died on 8 June 2022.