Art review: Paula Rego: power and perversity

Paula and Anthony had an extraordinary relationship, illuminated by the exhibition of his collection at the Ben Uri Museum that closes on 5 September. He calls it “a collaboration”, in which she cast him as a character in many different stories. “It is a revealing fact,” he writes, “that her best likenesses of me were when I was playing a role, not when she was making a straight portrait.” In this exhibition Rudolf appears as Mr Rochester from Jane Eyre, as Bluebeard, as a priest from a famous Portuguese novel, The Crime of Father Amaro, and as Gregor Samsa from Kafka’s Metamorphosis.