Pauline Boty
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New Bluesky account for British Pop art pioneer Pauline Boty. For further information, please see paulineboty.org
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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“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…
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October 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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.
paulineboty.org/5-4-3-2-1-be...
paulineboty.org/5-4-3-2-1-be...
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
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Free tickets and further info here: tinyurl.com/4vypxjw3
Pauline Boty: Her life and work
Chris Gregory, curator of Pauline Boty's authorised website, discusses her life and work
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September 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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
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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...
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Further information is available here: www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhi...
Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait - National Portrait Gallery
In celebration of the Hollywood star’s centenary, Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait will explore the life, career and legacy of Marilyn Monroe through portraits created by some of the greatest photographers ...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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...
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Further information is available here: www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhi...
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
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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
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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…
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August 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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
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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
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For more on the life and work of Pop art pioneer Pauline Boty please visit paulineboty.org
August 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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
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For more on the life and work of Pop art pioneer Pauline Boty please visit paulineboty.org
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...
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.
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July 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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...
Museum MORE, Gorssel, Netherlands until 28 September. Further information available at: www.museummore.nl/en/exhibitio...
July 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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...
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.
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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.
May 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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.
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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
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For more information on the life and work of Pop art pioneer, please visit paulineboty.org
May 17, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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
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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.
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.
May 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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.
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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#paulineboty
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Wishing everyone a very happy Bank Holiday and happy listening!
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#paulineboty
May 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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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#paulineboty
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Wishing everyone a very happy Bank Holiday and happy listening!
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#paulineboty
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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
April 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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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April 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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
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For more on the life and work of Pop art pioneer #paulineboty, please visit paulineboty.org
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
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To see Stanley-Clamp’s photos please visit paulineboty.org/photos
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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…
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April 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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
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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.
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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.
April 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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.
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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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Photos: paulineboty.org
Please see paulineboty.org/news for further info
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Photos: paulineboty.org
March 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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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Photos: paulineboty.org
Please see paulineboty.org/news for further info
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Photos: paulineboty.org
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.
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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.
March 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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.
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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
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
March 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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
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...
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Further info is available here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
March 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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...
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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
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Further info at: tinyurl.com/3apba5ww
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Photos by paulineboty.org
March 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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
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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...
February 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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...
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...
BBC Radio London - Robert Elms, 01/03/2025
A show packed with great conversation, guests, food and music.
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February 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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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For further information please see paulineboty.org/news
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February 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“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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#paulineboty
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For further information please see paulineboty.org/news
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#paulineboty
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.
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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.
February 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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.
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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
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Please see holburne.org/events/iconi... for further info.
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Photos by paulineboty.org
February 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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
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Please see holburne.org/events/iconi... for further info.
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Photos by paulineboty.org