Catalogue entry
Robyn Denny b.1930
T01832 Manman 1957
Inscribed ‘Denny 57’b.r.
Ink on paper, 6¿ x 9 1/16 (16.2 x 23).
Presented by the artist 1973.
Exh: Tate Gallery, March–April 1973 (not numbered).
Lit: Robert Kudielka in introduction to Tate Gallery exhibition catalogue 1973, p.14.
T01832 is a preliminary sketch for ‘ManMan’ (1957). In 1957–58 Denny was including in his collages and paintings not only fragments of numbers or letters but also whole words and phrases. These were usually short and their function was ‘confined to the stimulus of recognition’ giving ‘the spectator a literary key to help him tune into the particular mood of the painting (GO GO, HA HA), or decipher the connotations of a significant form (ManMan). The words and the letters are bait to lure the eye out of the everyday world and into the world of the painting’… (read more)
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