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  • Pauline Boty, A Big Hand, ca. 1961, gilt paint and collage on paper, 20 1/4 x 16 3/8".

    Pauline Boty, A Big Hand, ca. 1961, gilt paint and collage on paper, 20 1/4 x 16 3/8".

    Pauline Boty

    Wave Wolverhampton Art Gallery

    When British Pop artist Pauline Boty died in 1966 at the age of twenty-eight, she left behind a considerable oeuvre. Yet this remarkable production was nearly lost to art history; much of it was rediscovered only in the 1990s, languishing at her family’s farm. Already as a student at the Royal College of Art in early-’60s London, Boty was a well-known face. A kind of poster girl for the swinging art scene, she was memorably captured twisting away at a party alongside Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, and David Hockney in Ken Russell’s famous 1962 BBC film Pop Goes the Easel. Like her peers, Boty was

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