Victor Pasmore

Corporate Collection, UK

Alan Bowness and Luigi Lambertini (intros.), Victor Pasmore, with a catalogue raisonné of the paintings, constructions and graphics 1926-1979, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, similar to nos.241, 251 and 264.

The formica is coming away in places and there are some marks of dirt in areas across the surface. Mounted on a white backboard in a perspex box frame. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 5381 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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There appear to be three other almost identical versions of this work, all slightly smaller than the present lot. They appear in Bowness and Lambertini's Catalogue Raisonné as Abstract in White, Black and Ochre (no.241), Abstract in White, Black and Ochre (no.251) and Abstract in White, Black and Indian Red (no.264, which has an extra element down the extreme right hand side).

Pasmore's relief pieces of the late 1950s and early 1960s demonstrate how fully he had solved one of the major frustrations he had encountered in his abstract work, that of freeing his work from the confines of the two-dimensional painting and therefore giving them a life which responds to changes in setting and lighting to give infinite variation in how the piece can be seen. The introduction of industrial materials into the relief works of this period, particularly sheets of perspex, allowed an element of absolute precision to enter the work.