Marc Kristal

Apr 4, 2024 | dailyartmagazine.com | Nikolina Konjevod |Candy Bedworth |Marina Kochetkova |Marc Kristal

Pop art min Read North American Art Artist Stories Pauline Boty was one of the pioneers of the 1960s’ Pop Art movement in Britain, of which she was the only acknowledged female member. Her versatile portfolio includes paintings, collages, and stained glass pieces. Boty’s work radiates with her confident femininity and explores themes of female sexuality with boldness and flair.

Dec 1, 2023 | literaryreview.co.uk | Marc Kristal

In October 2013, Marc Kristal popped into Christie’s to get out of the rain and saw an exhibition called ‘When Britain Went Pop: British Pop Art – The Early Years’. His attention was caught by two paintings, one by David Hockney, with whose work he was familiar, and the other, a large mixed-media canvas from 1964 entitled It’s a Man’s World I, by an artist wholly new to him, Pauline Boty.

Nov 10, 2023 | airmail.news | Marc Kristal

It was almost exactly a decade ago, in 2013, that I saw my first Pauline Boty painting. Like so many of life’s transformative events, my presence that October day at Christie’s, in London—standing before the artist’s 1964 canvas It’s a Man’s World I—was a fluke: I’d been passing the auction house when it began to rain, and with time to kill, not wishing to get wet, and intrigued by the exhibition’s title (“When Britain Went Pop: British Pop Art—The Early Years”), I went in.

Oct 31, 2023 | wallpaper.com | Jonathan Bell |Marc Kristal

Pauline Boty was at the heart of the Pop Art movement, an RCA student who studied alongside David Hockney, Peter Blake, RB Kitaj, Allen Jones and others. She died of cancer in 1966, just as the 1960s were really starting to swing. Marc Kristal’s new Pauline Boty biography is a rich retelling of the short but intense career of this once-overlooked British Pop artist.

Oct 31, 2023 | inkl.com | Marc Kristal

Despite her impressive body of work, gregarious personality and pivotal place in the artistic and aesthetic heart of the Pop movement, Boty’s death didn’t grant her immediate posthumous fame. Kristal relates how it took nearly three decades before the bulk of her paintings were rediscovered, stashed away in a farmhouse in Kent.