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A Selection of items from the Denney
Collection
A significant part of the Denney Collection
- worth several million pounds - was lent to the Dallas Museum of Art in
1970. Following Anthony Denney’s sudden death in Spain in April 1990, 23
pictures were removed from Dallas to France by means of letters signed
"Anthony Denney".
The pictures were hidden, along with others
from the collection, and were subsequently transformed into an apparently
bona-fide donation to the City of Toulouse, thereby stripping the Denney
estate of most of its movable assets. A selection of items from the collection
are illustrated below.
APPEL Karel "Le Chat" 1951
Denney167- DALLAS No 2.1970
BURRI Alberto "Sacco IV" 1954 - detail
Denney No 52 Dallas 5.1970 - Notes
DUBUFFET Jean "Noble port de tete" 1954
Denney 42 Dallas 9.1970
FONTANA Lucio "Concetto Spaziale Attese 1+1 - IIIXY" 1962
Denney 199 - DALLAS No 13.1970
Mathieu, Georges - The Battle of Hastings 1956
French Institute London until 1991
TAPIES Antoni "Petit Ochre Lacere" 1964
Denney 214 - DALLAS 27.1970
SHIRAGA Kasuo Painting 1958
Denney 173 - Rendcomb College. England until 1991