Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction

Modern British and Irish Art Evening Auction

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 8. View on the Cam from Magdalene Bridge, Cambridge, no.2 .

Victor Pasmore

View on the Cam from Magdalene Bridge, Cambridge, no.2

Artist's Resale Right

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Victor Pasmore

1908 - 1998

View on the Cam from Magdalene Bridge, Cambridge, no.2


signed Pasmore (on the canvas overlap)

oil on canvas

unframed: 56 by 68.5cm.; 22 by 27in.

framed: 72 by 84.5cm.; 28 by 33¼in.

Executed in 1947.

Commissioned directly from the Artist by Kenneth Harrison, FSA

Mrs Michael Stanley, and thence by descent to the previous owner

Their Sale, Sotheby's London, 18 November 2014, lot 121, where acquired by the present owner (sold for £170,500 including buyer's premium)

Alan Bowness & Luigi Lambertini, Victor Pasmore, with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Constructions and Graphics, 1926-1979, Thames & Hudson, London, 1980, no. 116

London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Victor Pasmore: Paintings and Constructions 1944-54, March – May 1954, no. 3

Nottingham, Djanogly Gallery, Victor Pasmore: Towards a New Reality, 26 November 2016 – 19 February 2017, no. 18, illustrated in the exh. cat. p. 40, fig. 36