Invest in Art?
The threat of a worldwide economic downturn is causing investors to flee financial markets. In a scenario of extreme financial uncertainty, many people start investing their funds in more solid and less speculative products. Art is an investment that has been seen by many as a way to protect themselves from stock market fluctuations.Whether it's a Picasso or a Paula Rego, at the famous auctions in London, New York or Lisbon, works of art break record after record, reaching astronomical values, as has repeatedly happened with the works of the Portuguese artist.A crisis can make fortunes lose (and gain), but a painting by a great painter always manages to resist the erosion caused by the passage of time. Even in periods of exaggerated inflation due to the meteoric rise in raw material prices. Discover five reasons to invest in the famous Portuguese Paula Rego.
1. Artist of national and international renown
On a route built between Portugal and the United Kingdom, Paula Rego asserts himself as one of the most important names in international contemporary art. Introducing expressive, profound and ambiguous elements into his works, Paula Rego (1935) gained recognition as one of the greatest artists of our time, nationally and internationally. Women and girls are placed in the foreground, and animals often replace humans. any work by Paula Rego it has an electrical charge that stays alive and ready to shock. The Portuguese artist is passionate about the darkness of fairy tales, having reinvented them as personal nightmares with fearful tones in new versions that are even scarier than the original narratives. He produced a series of drawings and prints based on Disney images, from Snow White, Pinocchio and Peter Pan, as well as images of Jane Eyre. In this Paula Rego it changes the hierarchy of the stories, recontextualizes them in contemporary life, and fills them with a kind of sexual dread.
2. Unique style
Paula Rego plays a fundamental role in figurative art, revolutionizing the female presence in the artistic field by exalting the role of women, their pleasures and challenges, but also by denouncing political authoritarianism, injustice and violence. His figurative and narrative works, often considered shocking, were inspired by different elements of high art and popular culture, but are never conservative. From abstractionism to conceptualism, his pieces are part of a figurative field of their own: «the beautiful grotesque». In surreal compositions with a cruelty - both subtle and explicit - the Portuguese artist demonstrates her own imagination and the brutality of the events in her life. Portuguese-British visual artist who is particularly known for her storybook-based paintings and prints. the style of Paula Rego evolved from abstract to representational, and preferred pastels over oils for much of her career.
3.Monetary valuation of works of art by Paula Rego
The painting "School for Little Witches", by the Portuguese artist Paula Rego, sold for £415,000 (500,000 euros) at auction in London, above Christie's estimate. Dating from 2009, the 154 by 121 cm painting shows a group of children and their adult caregivers, "as if they were clients of an absurd nursery", can be read in the essay about the work, published by the auctioneer. Each time, the Portuguese painter sells more works at exuberant prices. Everything indicates that your art pieces will be more and more valued monetarily, so it will always be a good investment.
4. Painting, serigraphy, tile (value for all portfolios)
Do you like painting more than tiles? Over the years, Paula Rego explored several techniques, having several works of art with different values. From serigraphs for €100, to paintings for €10,000, the pieces of Paula Rego they are a great investment, which combines aesthetic enjoyment with financial compensation, usefulness and pleasure. Investing in art is investing in your assets and heritage.
5.Marked the History of Portuguese and International Art
the portuguese artist Paula Rego is currently an influential figure, whether in the artistic or social world. The British newspaper Financial Times included Paula Rego in the list, released annually, in which 25 women from all over the world from different industries with a leading role in the previous year are celebrated. Throughout the career, Paula Rego has been building a visual language that combines literary references mainly from 19th and 20th century works with autobiographical elements. Between life and art, Paula Rego demonstrates its concerns and convictions, for example, the production of the series entitled «Aborto» for agreeing with the decriminalization of the voluntary interruption of pregnancy.
