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Denis Bowen (1921-2006)
Untitled
signed 'DENIS' (on the reverse)
oil and household paint on board
35 ¾ x 42 ¾ in. (90.9 x 108.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1955.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner's uncle, and by descent to the present owner.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

Bowen was a champion of non-figurative art and consistently worked in groundbreaking new styles. He founded the New Vision Group Gallery and New Vision Centre Gallery, both of which were internationalist and forward thinking in the Post-War era. From the 1950s to the mid-60s he was a pioneer of tachism; he used bold blocks of paint and free-form brush strokes, and his materials and gestural marks of this period acquired symbolic and emotional values. In 1957 he contributed to the Redfern Gallery's landmark Metavisual, Tachiste, Abstract, an exhibition that put Bowen's painterly abstraction in context - among the other exhibitors were Roger Hilton, Patrick Heron, Sandra Blow, Adrian Heath and Gillian Ayres.

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