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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Robert Dex and Arts Correspondent

Pop art fans put up their own blue plaque to pioneering painter after English Heritage snub

Devoted fans of a pioneering female pop artist are putting up their own blue plaque in her memory after being snubbed by English Heritage.

Campaigners were told painter Pauline Boty, who rubbed shoulders with David Hockney, Bob Dylan and Michael Caine and whose work sells for seven figures, did not have a high enough “profile” so have taken matters into their own hands.

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