Design

COSTUME DESIGN FOR “THE FIREBIRD”, c. 1961, mixed media on paper

All of Pauline Boty’s works listed below are in private collections unless otherwise stated and where available the link to a work held by a museum or gallery is shown. Items that are presumed lost or whereabouts unknown are listed as [Unknown] with a note of their original location where possible. Where pieces have come up for auction links are included where available. The listings are in the following order:

NAME OF WORK
Date, Medium, Dimensions [Height followed by Width]
Date exhibited: Name of exhibition, Location

THEATRE DESIGN FOR “THE BALCONY” BY JEAN GENET, ACT 1, SCENE 1
1961, collage and gouache, 29.8 x 41.3 cm
1993: Pauline Boty, Mayor Gallery, London
2013: Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman, Wolverhampton
2013: Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2014: Pauline Boty and Pop art, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland

THEATRE DESIGN FOR IRMA’S ROOM IN “THE BALCONY” BY JEAN GENET
1961, collage, gouache and lace, 31.8 x 45.7 cm [link]
1993: Pauline Boty, Mayor Gallery, London
2013: Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman, Wolverhampton
2013: Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2014: Pauline Boty and Pop art, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland

COSTUME DESIGN FOR “THE FIREBIRD”
c. 1961, mixed media on paper, 35.5 x 31.1 cm
1998: Pauline Boty, Mayor + Whitford, London

“THE JUDGE” AND “THE GENERAL” COSTUME DESIGNS FOR GENET’S “THE BALCONY”
1961, gouache on paper, 69 x 78 cm [in single frame]
1993: Pauline Boty, Mayor Gallery, London

“THE BISHOP” COSTUME DESIGN FOR GENET’S “THE BALCONY”
1961, gouache on paper, 70 x 49 cm
1993: Pauline Boty, Mayor Gallery, London

PROGRAMME AND POSTER DESIGN FOR “THE KNACK”
Royal Court Theatre, 1962 [link]

PROGRAMME AND POSTER DESIGN FOR “DAY OF THE PRINCE”
Royal Court Theatre, 1963 [link]

“WHAT WE NEED NOW TO DISCOVER IN THE SOCIAL REALM IS THE MORAL EQUIVALENT OF WAR”
1964, watercolour, gouache, pencil, ink, and photomechanical reproductions on paperboard, 74.7 x 54.5 cm
Illustration for Container Corporation of America ad, Time magazine, November 1964
“What we need now to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war; something heroic that will speak to man as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved to be incompatible.” William James, 1902. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of Container Corporation of America [link]