Pauline Boty

“5-4-3-2-1” – behind the title Despite understandable confusion to the contrary Boty’s painting and Manfred Mann’s song “5-4-3-2-1” are almost certainly unconnected even though the work shares the same title as the theme tune to…

Despite understandable confusion to the contrary, a new page at the website details how Pauline Boty and Manfred Mann’s respective works “5-4-3-2-1” are almost certainly unconnected.
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Pauline Boty: Her life and work Chris Gregory, curator of Pauline Boty's authorised website, discusses her life and work

Delighted to be doing another talk on Pop art pioneer Pauline Boty at Iconic Images Chelsea, Sunday 21 September, 2:00pm. This is to coincide with the Chelsea Arts Festival and I’ll be sure to point out some local locations relating to Boty.
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Free tickets and further info here: tinyurl.com/4vypxjw3

Work by Pauline Boty is to be included in “Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait”, one of the exhibitions just announced by the National Portrait Gallery for its 2026 programme. Boty featured Monroe in three of her major paintings.
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Further information is available here: www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhi...

Photos Boty on the steps outside Addison Road [unknown photographer] Pauline Boty was photographed numerous times, both in portraits for many of the most well-known photographers of the time, and in uncre…

A previously unseen portrait of Pauline Boty by John Stanley-Clamp has recently added to the website.
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Like Boty, Stanley-Clamp studied at the RCA and was later commissioned to photograph the artist to accompany a women’s magazine article.
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Please visit paulineboty.org/in-focus/photos

Poster for the 1963 Royal Court Theatre production “Day of the Prince” by Frank Hilton designed by Pauline Boty in which she also made her professional debut onstage as Virginia.
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For more on the life and work of Pop art pioneer Pauline Boty please visit paulineboty.org

Monitor - Pop Goes the Easel Ken Russell's 1962 film on the young British artists who were pioneering the pop art movement. Featuring Peter Blake, Peter Phillips, Derek Boshier and Pauline Boty.

Ken Russell’s remarkable documentary “Pop Goes The Easel” first introduced Pauline Boty and her Royal College of Art peers to a wider UK audience on Sunday 25 March 1962. Highly recommended viewing and still available on iPlayer for over a year at: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Pauline Boty’s “(Untitled) ‘Sunflower Woman’”, c. 1963, is among the works on display in POP MODELS at
Museum MORE, Gorssel, Netherlands until 28 September. Further information available at: www.museummore.nl/en/exhibitio...

Over 300 people have now voted for their favourite painting by Pauline Boty at paulineboty.org
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The top three are the clear favourites, with over 40% of the voteshare:

1] Bum, 1966
2] The Only Blonde in the World, 1963
3] Colour Her Gone, 1962

To vote, please visit paulineboty.org and click POLL.

Pauline Boty photographed by her boyfriend David Cripps in Christopher Logue’s tribute “Gone Ladies: for Pauline Boty”, Turret Books, 1968. Sheet music version, edition of 100, designed by Derek Boshier.
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For more information on the life and work of Pop art pioneer, please visit paulineboty.org

So delighted to have received 10,000 visitors to paulineboty.org for the third successive year!
Previously this figure has always taken at least until November to reach, so just great to see the levels of interest in Boty continuing to grow year on year.

Just in time for the Bank Holiday we’ve updated the Playlist for Pauline Boty on Spotify and the website’s info page at paulineboty.org/playlist-for-pauline-boty
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Wishing everyone a very happy Bank Holiday and happy listening!
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Wow! Three questions on Pauline Boty on tonight’s University Challenge. And fair play to Darwin, Cambridge they got all three right. @paulineboty.bsky.social

Private Eye 29 April 1966. Pauline Boty was among artists contributing to a “Grand Raffle of Drawings” for the Private Eye Appeal Fund in aid of the libel action against it by Lord Russell of Liverpool.
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For more on the life and work of Pop art pioneer #paulineboty, please visit paulineboty.org

Photos Boty on the steps outside Addison Road [unknown photographer] Pauline Boty was photographed numerous times, both in portraits for many of the most well-known photographers of the time, and in uncre…

New photos of Pauline Boty by John Stanley-Clamp have added to the website. Like Boty, he studied at the RCA and was later commissioned to photograph the artist to accompany a women’s magazine article.
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To see Stanley-Clamp’s photos please visit paulineboty.org/photos

Pauline Boty’s rarely-seen 1962 painting “Red Manoeuvre” will be in “The Way Forward: Derek Boshier and the Sixties” at Gazelli Art House
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For further info see: tinyurl.com/47v9mx4u
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Images of “Red Manoeuvre” and Derek Boshier’s “Viewer”, 1965, and “Highlights”, 1966, courtesy Gazelli Art House.

Pauline Boty’s paintings “Untitled (red yellow blue abstract)”, 1961 and “Big Jim Colosimo”, 1963 are among the works on display by @gazelliarthouse at Dallas Art Fair 2025. The exhibition will run from 10–13 April 2025.

Please see paulineboty.org/news for further info
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Exhibition catalogue for “New Art”, Festival of Labour; Congress House, London, 13-27 June 1962.
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Boty exhibited “Gershwin” and “Painting”; the latter can be be seen in a photo held by Getty Images here: gettyimages.com/detail/50947298
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Many thanks to Fraser Donachie @unifixbrix for the images.

Posted in honour of International Women’s Day: “Monica Vitti with Heart”, 1963, by Pauline Boty.

Boty also included Vitti in the collaged walls she created, alongside Louise Brooks, Monroe, Natalie Wood, Bardot, Jane Avril and Allegra Kent among others. More info at: tinyurl.com/42svnfrj

A reminder that tonight at 10:00pm on BBC4 will be the first screening on TV of BOTY: I am the Sixties, the new documentary film from Mono Media Films and Channel X!
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Further info is available here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Trondheim based Jenny Frøysa has composed several pieces about Pauline Boty, also playing at the unveiling of her blue plaque in 2023. Her music will be featured in BOTY: I am the Sixties at 10:00pm on BBC4 on Monday 3rd March.
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Further info at: tinyurl.com/3apba5ww
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Photos by paulineboty.org

Art historian Katy Hessel’s Museums Without Men audio guide for Tate Britain includes Pauline Boty’s “The Only Blonde in the World”: www.tate.org.uk/story-player...

BBC Radio London - Robert Elms, 01/03/2025 A show packed with great conversation, guests, food and music.

Writer Vinny Rawding and Executive Producer (and best friend of Pauline) Natalie Gibson of new TV documentary BOTY: I am the Sixties will be in conversation with @robert.elms.london on Radio London this Saturday 1 March at about midday: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

“What Art Can Tell Us About Love” by Nick Trend includes Pauline Boty with “My Colouring Book” from 1963 and Peter Blake with “Boy With Paintings”, 1957–1959. Due to be published by Laurence King on 13 March.
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For further information please see paulineboty.org/news
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Screening date of 3rd March on BBC4 confirmed for Pauline Boty documentary!
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The first screening on TV of BOTY: I am the Sixties, the new documentary film from Mono Media Films and Channel X, has been confirmed as taking place at 10:00pm on BBC4 on Monday 3rd March, then available on iPlayer.

Details from Pauline Boty’s “With Love to Jean-Paul Belmondo”, which is among works in a new exhibition – “Iconic: Portraiture from Francis Bacon to Andy Warhol” – at The Holburne Museum, Bath, until May 5.
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Please see holburne.org/events/iconi... for further info.
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Photos by paulineboty.org

Many thanks indeed to the Estate of John Aston for allowing a selection of his portraits of Pauline Boty to be added to the website.
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John Aston photographed Boty on two occasions for the article “Pauline Goes Pop” in Men Only, March 1963.
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To see the photos please visit paulineboty.org/photos

Playbill for the 1963 Royal Court Theatre production “Day of the Prince” by Frank Hilton. As well as designing the production’s programme Boty made her professional debut onstage in the play, as Virginia.
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For more on the life and work of Pop art pioneer Pauline Boty please visit paulineboty.org

BBC Two - Simon Schama’s Story of Us, Series 1, Who Are We Now? Simon Schama explores how artists have shaped who we are in an era of bewildering change.

“Simon Schama’s Story of Us”, a new three-part BBC series, includes Pauline Boty in the first episode, first broadcast on BBC2 at 21:00 on Wednesday 8 January, then on iPlayer.
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For further info please see www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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With thanks to @johnearls.bsky.social for the notification.

Can you help identify the individual in this image? Pauline Boty included him in her 1960/61 collage “Picture Show. If so, please get in touch (with details of source image if at all possible) here or via paulineboty.org/contact and would be delighted to credit you accordingly.

UPDATE: now confirmed as Natalina “Lina” Cavalieri (25 December 1874 – 7 February 1944), Italian operatic dramatic soprano, actress, and monologist.
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Many thanks to all the suggestions and sharing and @unifixbrix for identifying. More to follow!