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'How wonderful that one of those exciting and innovative women artists of the 60s should be recovered and celebrated in this way.'- JULIE CHRISTIE

'Brings the British pop artist, Pauline Boty, into vivid focus' - VANITY FAIR

Pauline Boty (1938 -1966) was a founding member of the British Pop Art…

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Pauline Boty put a spell on me when I was writing one of my novels in 2007.

The only female British Pop Artist from the 1959-62 generation that also produced Peter Blake and David Hockney, she went to the Royal College of Art with them and lived in a house directly behind my current address in what was then Bohemian Labroke Grove. Like everyone who ever knew her, I became obsessed with this beautiful girl with a mercurial talent who died so tragically young.

By talking to all the important people in her life and diligently piecing the story…

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