Pauline Boty
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Pauline Boty (1938 Surrey, England – 1966, London) was Britain's only female Pop art painter. She studied stained glass at the Royal College of Art (1958-61) and was a friend and contemporary of RCA fine artists including Derek Boshier, Peter Phillips and Peter Blake with whom she featured in a 1962 episode of BBC TV's Monitor arts documentary Pop Goes The Easel, directed by Ken Russell.[1] She was also an occasional model, stage film and TV actress and regular contributor to topical and iconoclastic BBC Radio series The Public Ear (1963-4). She married leading literary agent Clive Goodwin in 1963 (d.1977) and had a daughter, Boty Goodwin (b.1966 d.1995). Pauline died in 1966 of cancer.
Her famous 1963 painting of Christine Keeler, Scandal, based on the Profumo affair, is now lost.[2] Only one of her paintings is believed to be in public ownership; that is The Only Blonde in the World at Tate Liverpool
Pauline's painting and collage often demonstrated a joy in self-assured femininity and sexuality, and implied or express criticism of the male-dominated establishment, which, combined with her own gregarious and extravert nature has caused her to be remembered by some as a herald of 1970s feminism.
[edit] References
- ^ John Montgomery, The New Wealth of Cities: City Dynamics and the Fifth Wave, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007, p140. ISBN 0754647897
- ^ npg.org.uk, accessed 4 October.
- Biography: Now You See Her - First Lady of British Pop, first published privately online in 2002
- Photographs of Pauline Boty can be found in the John Aston collection at http://www.colinrobinson.com/Boty.html
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