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. 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.
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.
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- 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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