Lot Essay
We are very grateful to Dr Sue Tate, author of Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman, Wolverhampton, 2013, for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
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Theatre Design for Irma's Room in 'The Balcony' by Jean Genet
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PAULINE BOTY (1938-1966)
Theatre Design for Irma's Room in 'The Balcony' by Jean Genet
inscribed 'The Balcony. Jean Genet/Irma's Room' (on a label attached to the backboard)
ink, watercolour, gouache, collage and lace on paper
12 ½ x 18 in. (31.8 x 45.8 cm.)
Executed in 1961.
Theatre Design for Irma's Room in 'The Balcony' by Jean Genet
inscribed 'The Balcony. Jean Genet/Irma's Room' (on a label attached to the backboard)
ink, watercolour, gouache, collage and lace on paper
12 ½ x 18 in. (31.8 x 45.8 cm.)
Executed in 1961.
Provenance
with Mayor Gallery, London.
Private collection, UK, from whom acquired by the present owner circa 2019.
Private collection, UK, from whom acquired by the present owner circa 2019.
Literature
S. Tate, Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman, Wolverhampton, 2013, pp. 68, 129, pl. 34.
M. Kristal, Pauline Boty: British Pop Art's Sole Sister, London, 2023, p. 139, illustrated.
M. Kristal, Pauline Boty: British Pop Art's Sole Sister, London, 2023, p. 139, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Mayor Gallery, Pauline Boty, June 1993, no. 10.
Wolverhampton, Arts Council England, City Art Gallery, Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman, June - November 2013, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, November 2013 - February 2014; and Poland, Łódź, Museum Sztuki, March - May 2014.
Wolverhampton, Arts Council England, City Art Gallery, Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman, June - November 2013, exhibition not numbered: this exhibition travelled to Chichester, Pallant House Gallery, November 2013 - February 2014; and Poland, Łódź, Museum Sztuki, March - May 2014.
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