- Artist
- Robyn Denny 1930–2014
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 2134 × 1829 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1965
- Reference
- T00740
Catalogue entry
Robyn Denny b. 1930
T00740 Life Line I 1963
Not inscribed.
Canvas, 84 x 72 (213.5 x 183).
Purchased from the artist through Kasmin Ltd. (Grant-in-Aid) 1965.
Exh: Kasmin Gallery, March 1964 (unnumbered but repr. in colour on invitation card); Britische Malerei der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, May–June 1964 (27, wrongly titled ‘Life Line 2’), and tour to Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Berlin and Bremen.
Repr: Art International, VIII, April 1964, p. 76 in colour.
One of a series of symmetrical compositions of interlocking shapes defined by rectilinear bands executed by Denny from about 1961.
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1965–1966, London 1967.
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