Paula Rego review – stunning is an understatement

Tate Britain, London
Violence, eroticism and oppression converge as Rego’s deeply ambiguous work goes straight for the subconscious in this mesmerising seven-decade retrospectiveA girl in voluminous skirts wrestles a dog to the ground. It lies on its back, startled and gasping, helpless as the poor mutt submitting to heavy chains in the neighbouring painting, or the dog having its throat shaved with an open razor in the next.A fourth painting, very famous, shows another girl – though