Image 9 by Denis Bowen

Image 9 by Denis Bowen

Image 9

Denis Bowen

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Title

Image 9

 
Artist

Denis Bowen

  1921 - 2006 (biography)
Year
1961  
Technique
mixed media drawing and watercolor 
Image Size
30 x 22" image and sheet size 
Signature
ink, lower right 
Edition Size
1 of 1 unique 
Annotations
resigned on right and dated 1962 
Reference
 
Paper
antique-white wove 
State
 
Publisher
 
Inventory ID
19317 
Price
$3,000.00 
Description

Denis Bowen (1921-2006) was born in Kimberley, South Africa, to a Welsh farmer. Orphaned at a young age, Bowen and his siblings moved to England in the mid-1920s, living with family in Manchester and then in Huddersfield. It was there that he enrolled on the Huddersfield Art School under the tutelage of Reginald Napier, who eventually encouraged him to apply to the Royal College of Art, London.

It wasn't until after his service in the Second World War that he attended college, in 1946. The pursuit of the new and exciting Tachism movement (a European equivalent to America's 'Abstract Expressionism') allowed the artist to break away from a more classical training he received under Carel Weight, Robert Buhler, and John Minton.

Denis Bowen leaned toward the experimental explorations of contemporaries such as Pierre Soulages and Georges Mathieu, and their knowledge of "pure painting," which translated well to the printmaking media that Bowen began to experiment with as he began teaching the early 1950s.

 

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