A new page on the website re-examines how in Ken Russell’s 1962 BBC documentary for Monitor “Pop Goes the Easel” he filmed a number of Pauline Boty’s abstract works, which remain unseen outside of the film and are now presumed lost. This was her predominant style of painting at the time (along with the more figurative collaged works she was also creating) before she later developed her major Pop works. Very few of the former still survive.
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The page details each still and pan filmed by Russell in turn, and also contains colour images of surviving works to both show how they appear in black and white and also give a sense of the vibrant colour palettes used by Boty in other paintings from the period.
“Pop Goes the Easel” – Pauline Boty’s lost abstract paintings can be seen here: [link]
Pauline Boty 