Olga is from a group of pictures that dredge up uncomfortable memories of life just after World War II in the Portuguese seaside town of Estoril, where Rego lived as a young adolescent with her parents and where German refugees sought a new life. (Portugal had remained neutral during the war but had sympathised with the Axis powers.) The forbiddingly masculine look of Olga, a language tutor and musician into whose skirt the girl rather inappropriately seeks shelter and comfort, makes no attempt to disguise the fact that it was a male friend of the artist who served as the model. As so often with Rego, the startling nature of the image, suggesting at once tenderness and inherent danger, supercharges the seduction of its pictorial means with the aftershocks of psychological disturbance and trauma.