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Works in the Exhibition

[1] Abstract In Black and Ochre, 1960 oil and collage on wood

541/8 × 60 in. / 137.5 × 152.5 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

[2] Abstract in Black, White and Umber, 1960 collage and photostat

503/8 × 983/8 in. / 128 × 249.9 cm

Provenance: Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: Victor Pasmore: Line & Space (2020). Hastings Contemporary, London, United Kingdom, 29 April – 31 October 2020.

[3] Linear Composition, 1962 – 65 pencil and gravure on board

611/8 × 611/8 in. / 155.5 × 155.5 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Literature: Bowness, Alan, and Luigi Lambertini. Victor Pasmore, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Constructions and Graphics 1926 – 1979. London: Thames and Hudson. 1980. Catalogue no. 363.

[4] Brown Image (Ochre), 1964 oil on board

48 × 48 in. / 121.9 × 121.9 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: Victor Pasmore: Retrospective Exhibition

1925 – 65 (1965). Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 14 May – 27 June 1965.

Literature: Bowness, Alan, and Luigi Lambertini. Victor Pasmore, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Constructions and Graphics 1926 – 1979. London: Thames and Hudson. 1980. Catalogue no. 337.

[5] Brown Development No. 3, 1964 oil and wood on plastic

611/8 × 611/8 in. / 155.3 × 155.3 cm

Provenance: Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: Victor Pasmore: Retrospective Exhibition 1925 – 65 (1965). Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 14 May – 27 June 1965.

Literature: Reid, Norman, and Ronald Allen. Victor Pasmore: Retrospective Exhibition. London: Tate Gallery, 1965.

Bowness, Alan, and Luigi Lambertini. Victor Pasmore, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings,

Constructions and Graphics 1926 – 1979. London: Thames and Hudson. 1980. Catalogue no. 338.

[6] Blue Development, 1965 oil on board

611/8 × 611/8 in. / 155.3 × 155.3 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: Victor Pasmore: Retrospective Exhibition

1925 – 65 (1965). Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 14 May – 27 June 1965.

Literature: Bowness, Alan, and Luigi Lambertini. Victor Pasmore, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Constructions and Graphics 1926 – 1979. London: Thames and Hudson. 1980. Catalogue no. 363 (reproduced in black and white).

[7] Brown Development, 1968 oil on board

363/4 × 37 in. / 93.5 × 94 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: The Space Within: New Paintings

Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, December 1968 – January 1969.

Literature: Bowness, Alan, and Luigi Lambertini. Victor Pasmore, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Constructions and Graphics 1926 – 1979. London: Thames and Hudson. 1980. Catalogue no. 402.

[8] Symphony in Maroon and Five Colours, 1968 oil and gravure on board 48 × 48 in. / 121.9 × 121.9 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: The Space Within: New Paintings

Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, December 1968 – January 1969.

Literature: Bowness, Alan, and Luigi Lambertini. Victor Pasmore, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Constructions and Graphics 1926 – 1979. London: Thames and Hudson. 1980. Catalogue no. 400.

[9] Grey Symphony, 1968 – 1977 oil on board

953/4 × 733/4 in. / 243.5 × 187.5 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: The Space Within: New Paintings

Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, December 1968 – January 1969. (first state)

British Art (1970). National Gallery, Washington, 1970. (first state)

Literature: Bowness, Alan, and Luigi Lambertini. Victor Pasmore, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Constructions and Graphics 1926 – 1979. London: Thames and Hudson. 1980. Catalogue no. 652 (illustrated in color p. 161).

[10] Black Rhythm, 1976 paint on panel

547/8 × 201/4 in. / 139.5 × 51.5 cm

Exhibited: The Image Within: Recent Works 1974 – 77 (1977). Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, September – October 1977, Marlborough Galerie AG, Zurich, October –December 1977.

Literature: Bowness, Alan, and Luigi Lambertini. Victor Pasmore, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Constructions and Graphics 1926 – 1979. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980. Catalogue. no. 656.

[11] The Paradox of Progress, 1984 oil on canvas on board

341/4 × 144 in. / 87 × 366 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Literature: Lynton, Norbert. Victor Pasmore, Paintings and Graphics, 1980 – 92. London: Lund Humphries, 1992. Catalogue no. 31 (illustrated in color, plate 35).

[12] Wandering Journey, 1985 oil on canvas on board

491/4 × 971/2 in. / 125.1 × 247.7 cm

Provenance: The Estate of The Artist

Exhibited: Victor Pasmore (1986). Marlborough

Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, 14 February –14 March 1986.

Retrospective Exhibition (1988 – 89). Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 16 November 1988 – 8 January 1989; traveled to Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., United States, 4 February – 2 April 1989.

Victor Pasmore, 1908 – 1998: Memorial Retrospective Exhibition (1999). Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, 9 June – 30 July 1999.

Victor Pasmore: Between Risk and Equilibrium (2017). Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, 20 June – 21 July 2017.

Literature: Lynton, Norbert. Victor Pasmore, Paintings and Graphics, 1980 – 92. London: Lund Humphries, 1992. Catalogue no. 50 (illustrated in color, plate 32).

[13] The Milky Way, 1987 paint on board

483/8 × 1443/8 in. / 123 × 367 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: Victor Pasmore: Between Risk and Equilibrium (2017). Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, 20 June – 21 July 2017.

Literature: Lynton, Norbert. Victor Pasmore, Paintings and Graphics, 1980 – 92. London: Lund Humphries, 1992. Catalogue no. 60 (illustrated in color, plate 41).

[14] The River's Edge, 1988 paint and canvas mounted on board 48 × 95 3/8 in. / 122 × 242.5 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: Victor Pasmore: Between Risk and Equilibrium (2017). Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, 20 June – 21 July 2017.

Literature: Lynton, Norbert. Victor Pasmore, Paintings and Graphics, 1980 – 92. London: Lund Humphries, 1992. Catalogue no. 74.

[15] Green Development in Two Movements, 1989 oil and spray paint

80 × 523/4 in. / 203.5 × 134 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: Victor Pasmore: Between Risk and Equilibrium (2017). Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, 20 June – 21 July 2017.

Literature: Lynton, Norbert. Victor Pasmore, Paintings and Graphics, 1980 – 92. London: Lund Humphries, 1992. Catalogue no. 78 (illustrated in color, plate 43).

[16] Untitled, 1990 paint on canvas and board

251/4 × 661/2 in. / 64.1 × 168.9 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: Victor Pasmore: New Work (1992). Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, 18 September – 24 October 1992.

Literature: Lynton, Norbert. Victor Pasmore, Paintings and Graphics, 1980 – 92. London: Lund Humphries, 1992. Catalogue no. 74.

[17] Beauty and the Beast, 1992 – 95 oil and spray paint

265/8 × 291/2 in. / 67.7 × 75.2 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

[18] Untitled, 1993 oil, spray paint and pencil on board

48 × 491/2 in. / 122 × 126 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: Victor Pasmore: Centenary Exhibition (2008). Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, 2 – 26 April 2008.

[19] Now that you have Reached The Sky, 1993 oil and pencil on board

96 × 473/4 in. / 244 × 121.5 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: Victor Pasmore: Centenary Exhibition (2008). Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, 2 – 26 April 2008.

[20] Untitled, 1996 oil, spray paint, and pencil on board

675/8 × 677/8 in. / 172 × 172.5 cm

Provenance: The Estate of the Artist

Exhibited: Victor Pasmore: Centenary Exhibition (2008). Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, 2 – 26 April 2008.

Biography

1908 Born in Surrey, United Kingdom

1998 Died in Gudja, Malta

Education

1923 – 26 Studied at Harrow Art School, London, United Kingdom

1927 – 32

Studied at Central School of Arts and Design, London, United Kingdom

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Victor Pasmore, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York

2022 Victor Pasmore: Prints, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York

2021 Victor Pasmore: Line & Space, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

2020 Victor Pasmore: Line & Space, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, United Kingdom

2019 Victor Pasmore: Space as Motif (Works from 1960 – 1970), Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

2017 Victor Pasmore: Between Risk and Equilibrium, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

2016

17

Victor Pasmore: Towards a New Reality, Djanogly Galley, Nottingham, United Kingdom; traveled to Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, United Kingdom

2015 Victor Pasmore in Three Dimensions, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

2011

12

Victor Pasmore: From Constructions to Spray Paint, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, United Kingdom

2008 Victor Pasmore: Centenary Exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

2004 Victor Pasmore: Constructions, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

2001 Victor Pasmore: A Print Retrospective, 1951 – 1997, Marlborough Graphics, London, United Kingdom

1999 – 2000

Victor Pasmore: Changing the Process of Painting, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

1999 Victor Pasmore, 1908 – 1998: Memorial Retrospective Exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

1996 Visual Music: Victor Pasmore, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, United Kingdom

1995 Victor Pasmore New Work: Paintings, Etchings and Lithographs, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

1992 Victor Pasmore, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria

1990 – 91

Victor Pasmore: Nature into Art, Paintings and Constructions, 1940 – 1990, Center for International Arts, New York, New York; traveled to Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1988 – 89

Retrospective Exhibition, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut; traveled to Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.

1986 Victor Pasmore: Graphics Exhibition, Galleria 2RC, Rome, Italy

Victor Pasmore, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

1980 Victor Pasmore, Arts Council Retrospective Exhibition, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, United Kingdom; toured Great Britain

The Green Earth: New Paintings and Graphic Works, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

1977 The Image Within: Recent Works

1974 – 77, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

1974 Graphics Exhibition, Galleria 2RC, Rome, Italy

Victor Pasmore, Galerie Farber, Brussels, Belgium

1969 The Space Within: New Paintings

1968 – 69, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

1968 Paintings and Constructions 1960 – 1967, Graphics 1965 – 1967, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, United Kingdom; traveled to Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

1967 Solo Exhibition, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, New York

Victor Pasmore, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

1966 Victor Pasmore, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

1965 Victor Pasmore: Retrospective Exhibition

1925-65, Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1964 Victor Pasmore, Galleria Lorenzelli, Milan, Italy

Victor Pasmore, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

1962 Retrospective Exhibition, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany

1961 Victor Pasmore: Recent Paintings and Constructions, Marlborough New London Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1960 Solo Exhibition, Victor Pasmore, 1958-60, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Victor Pasmore: Paintings and Constructions, XXX Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

1958 Basic Forms: New Paintings and Constructions, O’Hana Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1955 Retrospective Exhibition: Selected Works, 1926 – 54, Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge, United Kingdom

1954 Victor Pasmore, Paintings and Constructions, 1944 – 54, ICA Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1953 Victor Pasmore: Recent Work, Redfern Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1949 Victor Pasmore, Recent Paintings 1948 – 49, Redfern Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1948 Abstract and other Paintings by Victor Pasmore, Redfern Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1943 Solo Exhibition, Redfern Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1933 Solo Exhibition, Association's Cooling Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022-23 Changing Times: A Century of Modern British Art, The Higgins Bedford, Bedford, United Kingdom

2022 Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945

1965, Barbican, London, United Kingdom

2021-22 Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist Art in Britain Since 1951, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, United Kingdom

2021 Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, United Kingdom

2017 Two Decades: British Printmaking in the 1960s and 1970s, Marlborough Fine Art London, United Kingdom

2016 Abstract Paintings 1939 – 1989, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, United Kingdom

2013

14 Correspondences, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

2013 Basic Design, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom; traveled to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

2012 Concrete Parallels, Centro Brasileiro Britânico, São Paulo, Brazil

2011 Let Us Face the Future: British Art 1945 – 1968, The Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain

2008 Unpopular Culture, curated by Grayson Perry, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill, United Kingdom

2007 Towards a Rational Aesthetic: Constructive Art in Post-War Britain, Osbourne Samuel Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2006 Concrete Thoughts: Modern Architecture and Contemporary Art, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

2003 Blast to Freeze: British Art in the Twentieth Century, Kunstmusuem, Wolfsburg, Germany

1985 St Ives 1939 – 64, Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1968 Relief/Construction/Relief, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

1967 Recent British Painting, Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1965 The Artist and his Environment: Alan Davie, Merlyn Evans, Ivon Hitchens and Victor Pasmore, 8th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

1964 Documenta III, Kassel, Germany

Paintings and Sculpture of a Decade, 1954 – 64, Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1963 Victor Pasmore and William Scott, Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland

1961 Bewogen Beweging, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1959 Documenta II, Kassel, Germany

The Developing Process: Work in Progress towards a New Foundation of Art Teaching, ICA, London, United Kingdom

1957 An Exhibit: Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; traveled to ICA, London, United Kingdom

Statements: A Review of British Abstract Art in 1956, ICA, London, United Kingdom

1956 Masters of British Painting 1800-1950, Museum of Modern Art, New York Group 7, This is Tomorrow, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1952 Adams, Blow, Paolozzi, Pasmore, Galleria Origine, Rome, Italy

1951 British Paintings 1925 – 1950, New Burlington Gallery, London, United Kingdom Aspects of British Art, ICA, London, United Kingdom

1948 The Euston Road School and Others, Wakefield Art Gallery, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

1941 Paintings by Members of the Euston Road Group, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, United Kingdom

1939 Contemporary British Art, British Pavilion, Wold Fair, New York

1934 Objective Abstractions, Zwemmer Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1930 XVII Artists, Zwemmer Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Awards and Residencies

1983 Elected Senior Royal Academician, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom

1977 Awarded Grid Prix d’Honneur for prints at International Graphics Exhibition, Ljubljana, Slovenia

1964 Awarded Carnegie Prize for Painting

1963 Appointed Trustee of the Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1959 Awarded CBE

Teaching Appointments

1954 – 61 Appointed Master of Painting at King’s College, Durham University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

1942 Appointed visiting teacher at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London, United Kingdom

Monographs and Selected Exhibition Catalogues

2016 Crippa, Elena, Alistair Grieve, and Anne Goodchild. Victor Pasmore: Towards a New Reality. London: Lund Humphries, 2016.

2010 Grieve, Alistair. Victor Pasmore. London: Tate Publishing, 2010.

1992 Lynton, Norbert. Victor Pasmore: Paintings and Graphics 1980 – 92. London: Lund Humphries, 1992.

1980 Bowness, Alan, and Luigi Lambertini. Victor Pasmore with a Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings, Constructions and Graphics,1926 – 1979. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.

1965 Alley, Ronald. Victor Pasmore: Retrospective Exhibition 1925 – 1965. London: Tate Publishing, 1965.

1945 Bell, Clive. Victor Pasmore. London: Penguin Books, 1945.