The Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale starting at 2:00pm on 17 October includes the previously unseen and unknown work Untitled (Christmas collage ’64) executed by Pauline Boty in 1964. The three works in the sale can be viewed at 8 King St, St. James’s, London SW1Y 6QT from 12 October.
The following images and details are all courtesy of Christie’s:
Lot 131
PAULINE BOTY (1938-1966)
Untitled (Christmas collage ’64)
gouache, ink and collage on paper
17½ x 125⁄8 in. (44.5 x 32.1 cm.) Executed in 1964
£10,000-15,000 | US$14,000-20,000 | €12,000-18,000
Provenance
The artist, and by descent to the present owner
Lot 130
PAULINE BOTY (1938-1966)
Untitled (Head of a Girl)
gouache on paper
19¾ x 16 in. (50.2 x 40.7 cm.) Executed circa 1961.
£30,000-50,000 | US$40,000-65,000 | €36,000-59,000
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.
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. 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.
Lot 135
PAULINE BOTY (1938-1966)
Theatre Design for Irma’s Room in ‘The Balcony’ by Jean Genet
inscribed ‘The Balcony. Jean Genet/Irma’s Room’ (on a label attached to the backboard)
ink, watercolour, gouache, collage and lace on paper
12½ x 18 in. (31.8 x 45.8 cm.)
Executed in 1961.
£20,000-30,000 | US$27,000-39,000 | €24,000-35,000
Provenance
with Mayor Gallery, London.
Private collection, UK, from whom acquired by the present owner circa 2019
Exhibited
London, Mayor Gallery, Pauline Boty, June 1993, no. 10. Wolverhampton, Arts Council England, City Art Gallery, Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman, June – November 2013, pp. 68, 129, exhibition not numbered, pl. 34: this exhibition travelled to Chichester, Pallant
House Gallery, November 2013 – February 2014; and Poland, Łódź, Museum Sztuki, March – May 2014.
Literature
LITERATURE
S. Tate, Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman, Wolverhampton, 2013, pp. 68, 129, pl. 34.
M. Kristal, Pauline Boty: British Pop Art’s Sole Sister, London, 2023, p. 139, illustrated.
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
Auction details
Modern British and Irish Art Day Sale
17 OCT 2PM BST | LIVE AUCTION 22686
Christie’s, 8 King Street, St. James’s, London SW1Y 6QT
Viewing
From 12 October
Further information is available here: [link]
Pauline Boty 