
Not on display
- Artist
- Robyn Denny 1930–2014
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 2438 × 1981 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1968
- Reference
- T01039
Display caption
Gallery label, September 2004
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Catalogue entry
Robyn Denny b.1930
T01039 First Light 1965–6
Inscribed on stretcher, ‘Robyn Denny 1965–66 8’ x 6’ 6” ’.
Oil on canvas, 96 x 78 (244 x 198).
Purchased from the Kasmin Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1967.
Coll: Sold by the Kasmin Gallery to David Thompson but returned because it was too large for his rooms.
Exh: Venice Biennale, 1966 (British Pavilion, 20, repr. in colour) and European tour; Four Young English Painters, Kunsthalle, Mannheim, December 1966–January 1967 (19 repr. in colour, as coll. David Thompson); Kunsthalle, Berne, February 1967 (18, repr. in colour); Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, April-May 1967 (17, repr. in colour); Kasmin Gallery, June 1967 (no number); John Moores Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, November 1967–January 1968 (63).
Repr: Studio International, CLXXI, June 1966, p. 240 (in colour); London Magazine, VI, June 1966, between pp. 56 and 57.
Published in The Tate Gallery Report 1967–1968, London 1968.
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