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Gone Ladies: Marilyn and Pauline Boty

13 Tuesday Feb 2024

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Periodicals, Poetry

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Art Decades, Bruce Davidson, Christie’s, Christopher Gregory, Christopher Logue, Colour Her Gone, Epitaph to Something’s Gotta Give, Gazelli Art House, George Barris, Gone Ladies, John Aston, Lawrence Schiller, Life Magazine, Marc Kristal, Marilyn in Beads, Marilyn Monroe, My Colouring Book, Pauline Boty, Picture Show, Pop Art, Richard Avedon, Some Like It Hot, Something's Got To Give, Sue Tate, Tara Hanks, The Only Blonde in the World, Town Magazine

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 →

Scandal ’63 Revisited: Symposium in Leicester

21 Tuesday Mar 2023

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Film, History, Poetry, Politics, Profumo Affair

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Carol Dyhouse, Caroline Collett, Caroline Coon, Cathy Lomax, Christine Keeler, Dameon Priestly, De Montfort University, Fionn Wilson, Gemma June Howell, Guinevere Clark, Leicester, Leicester Gallery, Marguerite Horner, Mari Ellis Dunning, Melanie Williams, Pauline Boty, Profumo Affair, Richard Farmer, Sarah Caulfield, Scandal '63 Revisited, Seymour Platt, Stephen Ward, Steve Chibnall, Sue Tate

A symposium for Scandal ’63 Revisited will be held at Leicester Gallery on Friday, April 14th, ahead of the exhibition’s last day on Saturday. Tickets are free but must be reserved in advance here. (The flyer image seen above shows an outtake from Christine Keeler’s iconic photo shoot with Lewis Morley, who later recreated her most famous pose with the Leicester-born playwright and provocateur, Joe Orton.)

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