Museum in Cascais – Casa das Historias Paula Rego
Opened in September 2009, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, is a museum with more than 700 works, including permanent and temporary exhibitions, of this acclaimed contemporary artist.
Paula Rego 🎨 was considered one of the best living painters in Britain (sadly passed away in June 2022).
The Financial Times 📰considered Paula Rego one of the most influential women of 2021! (check who were the other 24 Women mentioned: here)
Paula Rego has works in museums around the world like the MoMA in New York or the British Museum in London!
Why artist Paula Rego remains a master storyteller
(according to the Arts correspondent @ BBC News)
Did you Know ? In 1994, Sotheby’s sold her work “Baying” was sold for over 1 Million dollars 💰💰!!!
The museum building, with 750m2, was designed by the winner the 2011 Pritzker Prize, architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.
(OMG😲! You don’t know what is the Pritzker Prize ???
I help then, it’s the “equivalent” to the Nobel Prize of architecture, the architecture’s highest honor)
🖼️ Details of Casa das Historias Paula Rego: here
Address: Avenida da República 300, 2750-475 Cascais
☎️ Telef:+351 21 482 6970