FRENCH LANGUAGE The only female artist in the London Group, Paula Rego set herself apart with her strongly figurative, literary, incisive and singular work. Born in Lisbon in 1935, Paula Rego left Portugal and Salazar's oppressive dictatorship as an adolescent to study in London where she has now lived for over fifty years. Trained at the Slade School of Arts, she rubbed shoulders with the likes of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, and David Hockney. As a painter, she produces large pastel polyptychs with exceptional flair. Obsessed by a certain literature and cultural vision of