Irish Examiner view: World is a poorer place without artists like Paula Rego

Paula Rego was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth.

With the passing of the Portuguese/British visual artist Paula Rego, the cause of international women’s rights and identity has lost one of its most eloquent advocates.

Rego, a contemporary of David Hockney and Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, specialised in magic realism and produced a terrifying triptych inspired by the Martin McDonagh play The Pillowman.