Derek Marlowe (1938 -1996) was an English playwright, novelist, screenwriter and painter

Derek Marlowe - The Memoirs of a Venus Lackey - Jonathan Cape - 1968

Portrait of Derek Marlowe with Unknown Ladies,1962–3. by Pauline Boty Oil on Canvas,  1222 x 1224 mm.  Tate Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Denise Coates Foundation on the occasion of the 2018 centenary of women gaining the right to vote in Britain 2018. Pop artist Boty used popular culture imagery to question how gender roles were presented. This work contrasts the treatment of an individual male sitter and the decorative depiction of unnamed women. Derek Marlowe (1938–1996) was an English writer and painter. He appears cool and assertive, in a pose common in celebrity photographs of the time. The smudged faces of four anonymous women are cut off at the forehead and chin. Boty said that for most men, women were ‘kind of things’.Gallery label, May 2019