"What impressed me most was an exhibition there by a modern Norwegian painter, Edvard Munch. I don't know if you are familiar with that quite famous painting The Scream—that's his—and he paints almost everything in that genre; he also has many engravings and drawings. But it's so impressive, so impressive that you can't imagine. Above all, a painting called Inheritance, which shows a seated woman crying with a skeleton child, all painted green, in her lap."
"About a year later, when families in her native Portugal were suffering from a severe drought, Rego used a colour palette reminiscent of The Scream to paint an open-mouthed pregnant woman carrying a skeletal infant and turning her face to the sun."
Paula Rego, the influential Portuguese figurative painter, was deeply affected by Edvard Munch's work when she visited a 1951 exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London while attending finishing school in Kent. A newly discovered letter from the 16-year-old Rego to her mother reveals her profound impression of Munch's paintings, particularly The Scream and Inheritance. About a year later, during a severe drought in Portugal, Rego created a painting titled Drought, employing a color palette reminiscent of The Scream, depicting a pregnant woman with a skeletal infant. This previously unknown early work, measuring 65cm by 22cm, was rediscovered in 2015 and remained in storage until after Rego's death in 2022, establishing the previously unrecognized artistic connection between the Norwegian and Portuguese masters.
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