Pauline Boty: life and works - in pictures

British pop artist Pauline Boty at home, circa 1963 Photograph: Tony Evans/Timelapse Library Ltd/Getty Images

Colour Her Gone,1962
Wolverhampton Art Gallery © Artist's estate.
This and many other examples of her work can be seen at 'Pauline Boty: Pop Artist and Woman' at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery which runs from 1 June 2013 - 16 November 2013 Photograph: Pauline Boty Estate/Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Pauline Boty in her studio in September 1963 Photograph: Lewis Morley Archive/National Portrait Gallery London

Boty also enjoyed a brief acting career on stage and screen. Here she is seen in a still from 'North City Traffic Straight Ahead' in 1962, one of two appearances in the ITV strand 'Armchair Theatre' Photograph: FremantleMedia Ltd/Rex Features

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1963 Photograph: Pauline Boty Estate/Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Here she is in rehearsal with James Fox for a scene in the play Afternoon Men at the New Arts Theatre on 20 August 1963 Photograph: Jim Gray/Getty Images

Boty at home in 1963 Photograph: Michael Ward/Rex Features

A Big Hand,c. 1960/61
Image courtesy of the owner © Artist's estate Photograph: Wolverhampton Art Gallery

British pop artist Pauline Boty at home with her cat, circa 1963 Photograph: Tony Evans/Timelapse Library Ltd/Getty Images

Boty appeared alongside Stanley Baxter in an episode of the TV show Espionage in 1964 Photograph: ITV /Rex Features

In 1962, graphic designer and photographer John Aston was commissioned to take pictures of pop artist and aspiring actress Pauline Boty. A small number were published in Men Only in March 1963 with text by Cedric French. They were taken in Pauline's flat in West London.
This and many other photographs of Boty can be seen at Mach Schau gallery, 1.12 Kingly Court, London W1 from 1st June 2013 Photograph: © John Aston 1962

Pauline Boty in her studio in London in 1963 Photograph: Michael Ward/Rex Features

Pauline Boty in her studio in 1964 with her now missing painting Scandal '63
This image can be seen in the exhibition 'Scandal ’63: The fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo Affair' which runs from 30 April until 15 September 2013, at the National Portrait Gallery, London, Room 32 Photograph: Michael Ward Archives/National Portrait Gallery London

A 24-year-old Boty hangs one of her works, entitled 'Painting' at Congress House, headquarters of the TUC, 13 June 1962 Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images

British pop artist Pauline Boty, circa 1963 Photograph: Tony Evans/Timelapse Library Ltd/Getty Images