Pauline Boty

Pauline Boty

Pauline Boty (1938 Surrey, England – 1966, London) was Britain's only female Pop art painter.

Life & works

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. [John Montgomery, "The New Wealth of Cities: City Dynamics and the Fifth Wave", Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007, p140. ISBN 0754647897] 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. [ [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/womostlywomen.asp npg.org.uk] , accessed 4 October.] Only one of her paintings is believed to be in public ownership; that is "The Only Blonde in the World" at [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=26506 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.

Filmography

#Alfie (1966) (uncredited) .... One of Alfie's girlfriends
#"The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre" - Strangler's Web (1965) TV episode as Nell Pretty (1 episode, 1965)
#"Contract to Kill" (1965) TV mini-series .... Maria Galen
#The Day of Ragnarok (1965) (TV)
#Monitor: Bartok (1964) (TV) .... Prostitute
#"Espionage" - The Frantick Rebel (1964) TV episode .... Mistress Fleay
#"Ready, Steady, Go!" .... Dancer (1 episode, 1963)
#"Armchair Theatre" - North City Traffic Straight Ahead (1962) TV episode .... Anna

References

*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
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098771/ IDMB entry for Pauline Boty]


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