© The Artist c/o Marlborough Fine Art
Portrait of David Hare
Artist: Paula Rego (born 1935)
Location: National Portrait Gallery
Date: 2005
Materials: pastel on paper on zinc
Dimensions: 130 x 123cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £15,000 (Total: £80,000)
Vendor: Marlborough Fine Art
Review number: 5760 (2006)
Provenance:
Marlborough Fine Art.
Description:
Full length portrait of the playwright David Hare (born 1947). Rego assumed the role of director for the work and suggested that Hare stared contemplatively into the distance with his right hand over his heart in a dramatic devotional gesture. There is a suggestion of a play or a performance taking place but the meaning is unclear. The lamb and crook could be a veiled reference to St. John the Baptist and a theatrical mask lies on the floor.
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