“When you write your story you know what it’s about,” the artist Paula Rego (1935–2022) told The White Review. “But invention comes when you do a drawing.” Born in Lisbon during the dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar, Rego later moved to London to study at the Slade School of Fine Art. She soon became a member of the London Group, a circle that included David Hockney and Phillip Sutton. Her drawings pulled from her own life, sometimes intimately, but also from fairy tales and legends; other sources include Jane Eyre and Peter Pan. Through such works Rego could address personal crises and conflicts from her childhood. A new exhibition at Galerie Lelong features drawings from 2005 to 2007, a time when Rego was working intensely in her London studio. —Maggie Turner