Artist Monograph

Paula Rego, British

British, born Portugal, 1935–2022

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Etching	19	86.4%
Watercolor	3	13.6%

Production by Decade

1980s

1990s

2000s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	13	65%
Medium (30–100 cm)	7	35%

Range: 22.2 cm → 48.0 cm (largest side)

British Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 22 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep from the series Nursery Rhymes Print Acc. 42.2023.2	1989	Etching with aquatint	plate: 12 5/8 × 8 3/8" (32 × 21.3 cm); sheet: 20 1/2 × 14 15/16" (52 × 38 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Goosey-goosey Gander from the series Nursery Rhymes Print Acc. 42.2023.5	1989	Etching with aquatint	plate: 8 1/4 × 8 3/4" (20.9 × 22.2 cm); sheet: 20 1/2 × 14 15/16" (52 × 38 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
How many Miles to Babylon? from the series Nursery Rhymes Print Acc. 42.2023.7	1989	Etching with aquatint	plate: 12 5/8 × 8 3/8" (32.1 × 21.3 cm); sheet: 20 1/2 × 14 15/16" (52 × 38 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Humpty Dumpty from the series Nursery Rhymes Print Acc. 42.2023.1	1989	Etching with aquatint	plate: 12 13/16 × 8 3/8" (32.6 × 21.2 cm); sheet: 20 1/2 × 14 15/16" (52 × 38 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Little Miss Muffet I from the series Nursery Rhymes Print Acc. 42.2023.3	1989	Etching with aquatint	plate: 8 7/8 × 8 7/16" (22.5 × 21.4 cm); sheet: 20 1/2 × 14 15/16" (52 × 38 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Nursery Rhymes Print Acc. 42.2023.1-9	1989	Nine from a series of thirty-one etching and aquatints, one with chine collé, two with watercolor additions	Various sheet dimensions ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Old Mother Goose from the series Nursery Rhymes Print Acc. 42.2023.4	1989	Etching with aquatint and watercolor hand additions	plate: 12 11/16 × 8 3/8" (32.3 × 21.3 cm); sheet: 20 1/2 × 14 15/16" (52 × 38 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Polly Put the Kettle On from the series Nursery Rhymes Print Acc. 42.2023.6	1989	Etching with aquatint	plate: 8 3/8 × 8 7/8" (21.2 × 22.6 cm); sheet: 20 1/2 × 14 15/16" (52 × 38 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Ring-a-ring o' Roses from the series Nursery Rhymes Print Acc. 42.2023.8	1989	Etching with aquatint on chine collé	plate: 8 3/8 × 8 7/8" (21.3 × 22.6 cm); sheet: 20 1/2 × 14 15/16" (52 × 38 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Untitled Print Acc. 211.1990	1989	Etching and aquatint	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Dorothy Braude Edinburg Fund and Purchase
See-saw, Margery Daw from the series Nursery Rhymes Print Acc. 42.2023.9	1994	Etching with aquatint and watercolor hand additions	plate: 12 1/2 × 8 1/4" (31.7 × 21 cm); sheet: 20 1/2 × 14 15/16" (52 × 38 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Untitled (The Abortion Series) Print Acc. 43.2023.1-10	1998	Series of ten etchings, six with aquatint	sheet (each): 14 15/16 × 18 7/8" (38 × 48 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Untitled 1 from Untitled (The Abortion Series) Print Acc. 43.2023.1	1999	Etching with aquatint	plate: 7 11/16 × 11 11/16" (19.6 × 29.7 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 × 18 7/8" (38 × 48 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Untitled 2 from Untitled (The Abortion Series) Print Acc. 43.2023.2	1999	Etching	plate: 7 11/16 × 11 11/16" (19.6 × 29.7 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 × 18 7/8" (38 × 48 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Untitled 3 from Untitled (The Abortion Series) Print Acc. 43.2023.3	1999	Etching with aquatint	plate: 7 11/16 × 11 11/16" (19.6 × 29.7 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 × 18 7/8" (38 × 48 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Untitled 4 from Untitled (The Abortion Series) Print Acc. 43.2023.4	1999	Etching	plate: 7 11/16 × 11 11/16" (19.6 × 29.7 cm); sheet: 14 15/16 × 18 7/8" (38 × 48 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Untitled 5 from Untitled (The Abortion Series) Print Acc. 43.2023.5	1999	Etching with aquatint	plate: 7 11/16 × 11 11/16" (19.6 × 29.7 cm); sheet: 14 3/4 × 18 11/16" (37.5 × 47.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Untitled 6 from Untitled (The Abortion Series) Print Acc. 43.2023.6	1999	Etching	plate: 7 11/16 × 11 11/16" (19.6 × 29.7 cm); sheet: 14 3/4 × 18 11/16" (37.5 × 47.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Untitled 7 from Untitled (The Abortion Series) Print Acc. 43.2023.7	1999	Etching with aquatint	plate: 11 1/2 × 7 11/16" (29.2 × 19.6 cm); sheet: 18 7/8 × 14 15/16" (48 × 38 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Untitled 8 from Untitled (The Abortion Series) Print Acc. 43.2023.8	2000	Etching	plate: 7 11/16 × 11 11/16" (19.6 × 29.7 cm); sheet: 14 3/4 × 18 11/16" (37.5 × 47.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Untitled from Untitled (The Abortion Series) Print Acc. 43.2023.9	plate drawn in 2000 (published in 2020)	Etching with aquatint	plate: 7 11/16 × 11 3/4" (19.5 × 29.8 cm); sheet: 13 1/16 × 17 1/16" (33.2 × 43.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear
Untitled from Untitled (The Abortion Series) Print Acc. 43.2023.10	plate drawn in 2000 (published in 2020)	Etching with aquatint	plate: 7 3/4 × 11 13/16" (19.7 × 30 cm); sheet: 13 3/8 × 17 1/16" (34 × 43.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Acquired through the generosity of Agnes Gund and Jack Shear