Whitford Fine Art

Derek Boshier is a pioneering figure of British Pop Art known for his use of iconography from mass culture as well as his album cover for David Bowie’s Lodger (1979). “My work has always been about pop culture. I did my first pop art painting in 1961. It was very small and called Situation in Cuba (it’s now in a museum in Havana),” he has said. “It’s the Cuban flag with the American flag eating into it and it was a response to JFK’s Bay of Pigs.”  Born in 1937 in Portsmouth, United Kingdom, he went on to study at the Royal College of Art in London alongside David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj. He later appeared in Ken Russell’s film Pop Goes the Easel (1962) with Pauline Boty and Peter Blake...