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At left, Marilyn Monroe by Richard Avedon, 1959; and at right, Pauline Boty by John Aston, 1962
Pauline Boty was an English pop artist who created three paintings of Marilyn before her death from cancer, aged 28, in 1966. Although neglected for many years, Boty’s work is now being rediscovered – and in March, one of her Marilyn portraits will go under the hammer at Christie’s, as Joe Dziemianowicz reports for Barron’s Magazine. Continue reading

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