Lot 97: Untitled (still life with paint brushes)

Pauline Boty (1938-1966) Untitled (still life with paint brushes) pencil, gouache and metallic paint 15¾ x 19¾ in. (40.5 x 52.7 cm.) Executed circa 1959-61.

40.5 x 52.7 cm.

circa 1959

Wolverhampton, Art Gallery, Pauline Boty Pop Artist and Woman, June - November 2013, not numbered.

S. Tate, exhibition catalogue, Pauline Boty Pop Artist and Woman, Wolverhampton, Art Gallery, 2013, pp. 28, 128, pl. 7.

with Mayor Gallery, London, where purchased by the present owner.

The American record producer and writer Joe Boyd owned Witchseason production company and Hannibal Records. He is famed for his work with, amongst others, Pink Floyd and Nick Drake. Boyd was responsible for the sound at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, when Bob Dylan played a controversial set backed by electric musicians. As a music producer for Warner Bros he collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on the soundtrack for A Clockwork Orange and supervised the recording of 'Dueling Banjos' for the soundtrack of Deliverance. He also went on to produce and co-direct the 1973 film documentary Jimi Hendrix. Boyd first visited London in 1964, and two years later had opened the capital’s first psychedelic ballroom, The UFO Club. Meeting many of the protagonists of the London scene, he developed an interest in British art from the 1960s.