As Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden opens at the National Gallery following the artist’s death last year, revisit a personal essay by her son, filmmaker Nick Willing, about the moving role he played in the making of Rego’s masterpiece, “The Dance”.
In 1988, when my father Victor Willing lay almost paralysed from multiple sclerosis in our London flat, my mother Paula Rego would often bring her work to show him, rolling up her canvases, dragging them from her studio and tacking them to his bedroom wall. His opinion was the one that mattered most to her.When she had an idea to paint a picture of dancers, she showed him the early sketches of women dancing together in a circle, as they do at Portuguese fairs.
At the time, I looked very much like the young Victor Willing, so Mum asked me to stand in for him. I hated posing for her because it was difficult to keep still for so long, but I saw how important this picture was to her so I agreed. Lila, Paula’s lifetime model, posed as the young Rego and together we stood for hours in a dancer’s embrace.
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