Untitled (Head of a Girl)

Details

PAULINE BOTY (1938-1966)
Untitled (Head of a Girl)
gouache on paper
19 ¾ x 16 in. (50.2 x 40.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1961.

Provenance

The artist, and by descent to the present owner.

Literature

'Advertisement for Rowney', ARK, No. 28, London, 1961, illustrated.
S. Tate, Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman, Wolverhampton, 2013, p. 43, pl. 13, as part of 'Advertisement for Rowney'.
M. Kristal, Pauline Boty: British Pop Art's Sole Sister, London, 2023, p. 106, as part of 'Advertisement for Rowney', illustrated.

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Lot Essay

Untitled (Head of a Girl) featured in an advertisement for Rowney artists’ materials, first published in ARK No. 28, 1961. ARK was a style and design journal published by the Royal College of Art from 1950-1978. The Rowney advert, designed by Keith Branscombe, depicts Boty seated in front of three of her paintings, holding a card with ROWNEY printed on it (see additional image above, provided by paulineboty.org). As in other photo shoots, Boty is making sure her work appears in photographs taken of her, anchoring her identity as an artist, not just a pretty face.

We are very grateful to Dr Sue Tate, author of Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman, Wolverhampton, 2013, for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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