Robyn Denny (1930-2014)

An abstract art piece with a green background, overlapping jewelry design with four turquoise-colored rectangles and white outlines.
Geometric diagram with black outlines and shaded green and gray areas, featuring a stepped pattern.
A diagram of a sports field with various red and black outlined sections on a green background.
An abstract geometric art piece with interconnected rectangles and squares on a green background.

‘ No painting should reveal all it has to say as a kind of instant impact. Abstract painting, that is painting that is not about subject matter, if it is any good should be as diverse, and complex, and strange and unaccountable and unnameable as an experience, as any painting of any consequence has been in the past.’

Generations in stock and framed . Framed size 89cm x 69cm Etching, Aquatint and Watercolour wash £950

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A framed abstract artwork featuring a dark background with overlapping rectangular shapes outlined in black and filled with various shades of green.
A framed abstract artwork with a green background, black outlines, and pinkish-red rectangular shapes in the center.

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Abstract artwork with overlapping geometric shapes in purple and black on a reflective black surface.
A dark screen displaying a geometric pattern of overlapping rectangles and squares with resolution-independent outlines. The shapes are filled with shades of purple and black, creating a layered, abstract composition.

Robyn Denny was one of Britains leading Artistic lights of the 1950s . Inspired the American Abstract artist of the same period he rebelled against the traditional schools of St Ives and the landscape artists of the time and yanked the British art scene up by the collar to make it current and relevant to the times.

Robyn Denny was born in 1930 in Surrey and went through the London Art Schools in the early 1950s. By the early 1960s Denny had arrived at his mature style of abstraction. - pared down and so ahead of its time. In 1966, Denny was selected, alongside Anthony Caro, Richard Smith, and Bernard and Harold Cohen - to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale and in 1974 was to become the youngest artist ever to be given a retrospective by the Tate.