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Gallery Different has represented the work of Denis Bowen for over 10 years and has been the custodian of his unsold archive and personal collection for the last 4 years. As a man of many parts—artist, patron, curator, gallery director, and ultimately a visionary—Denis Bowen was a hugely influential figure in the post-war period and throughout the ensuing decades. He is one of the most widely respected British abstract painters to emerge from the avant-garde, and throughout his life, he remained committed to the cause of abstraction.

As abstract expressionism was taking hold in the US, Bowen …