Name: Untitled, 1976
Brand: Richard Allen (1933-1999)
Price: 4000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

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Richard Allen (1933-1999)
Untitled, 1976
signed and dated twice '1/2/76/Richard Allen/1976' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas, unframed
42 x 42 in. (106.7 x 106.7 cm.)

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In the 1970s Richard Allen began to place less emphasis on the immediate optical impact and more on a greater perceptual subtlety; this is evident in this present work with his subtle use of the grid-cross lines. As Dr Alan Fowler notes, 'crucial to Allen's approach was the need to work within the self-imposed limits (and opportunities) of the systems that [he] chose to adopt ... Allen explained: 'system as it exists in my work evolved slowly over a long period of formal experiment and was due primarily to an innate necessity to work creatively within a personally acceptable range of formal limitations'' (Dr A. Fowler in exhibition catalogue, Richard Allen: A Retrospective, London, Offer Waterman, 2008, n.p.)