PAULINE BOTY EXHIBITION

THE PIONEER OF POP ART

Pauline Boty, the only woman in the British branch of the movement, beautiful as an actress (she was a bit), prominent figure of the swirl called Swinging London is one.

But his career was so fast and fast that his works fell into oblivion (born March 6, 1938-died July 1, 1966).

It was only in the 90s that his name began to be known by art historians specializing in British Pop Art.

And only in 2013 a retrospective was organized for her.

Trained in the art of stained glass at the Royal Academy of Arts, she imposes herself and imposes her femininity in a world of men.

She is the only English painter of this movement alongside Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton or David Hockney. Many members of the London scene fell in love with her.

A young singer named Bob Dylan would have composed the song Liverpool Gal for her.

But everything stopped abruptly in 1965 overwhelmed by cancer.

"She continued to entertain her friends and even sketched The Rolling Stones during her illness. "

* A heroine, we tell you.

Her paintings were like her: sexy and provocative.

His canvases provoke our eyes and our mind by the subjects treated as by his large flat areas of bright colors:

A gluttony close-up-his diptych It's A Man World I & II (1965) pits the machistadors of the time (Kennedy, Elvis ...) to simply naked women- icons of the sixties - Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marilyn Monroe, Monica Vitti ... - or her look at Cuba and the missile crisis.

The French collector, Charles-Henri Filippi, discovering this feminist artist, remained captivated by his paintings.

Come and discover them at the exhibition-sale at the house Piasa.

"The Remains of Love. Last look before Brexit ".

From March 29 to April 18 at Piasa, 118, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, Paris VIII.