Robyn Denny
Collage (Austin Reed, Version I) (1959)
Tate
This year’s lecture on modern British art is given by Éric de Chassey, Director of the French Academy in Rome. Although pop art is often presented as a reaction against abstract expressionism, de Chassey argues that not only did British abstract painters such as Robyn Denny and Richard Smith participate in pop abstraction but that in the mid-1960s it became an international trend.