Scarecrow
Paula Rego 2006
courtesy of Marlborough Fine Art

Daumier numbers among the greatest 19th century caricaturists using his lithographs as the means to observe and comment on Parisian life in La Caricature and Le Charivari.  In our times Paula Rego, who incidentally is co-curator of this show, uses printmaking for her sometimes unsettling take on stories and the familiar.  As you will see that even though separated by a century these artistic visions have recognisable similarities.