Abstract in White, Black, Ochre and Vermillion

Details

Victor Pasmore, C.H. (1908-1998)
Abstract in White, Black, Ochre and Vermillion
painted wood relief construction
42 x 45 in. (106.7 x 114.3 cm.)
Constructed in 1958.

Provenance

Fairlawn School, Honor Oak, London.
Their sale; Sotheby’s, London, 21 June 1995, lot 141.
Purchased by the present owner at the 1998 exhibition.

Literature

A. Bowness and L. Lambertini, Victor Pasmore: with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Constructions and Graphics 1926-1979, London, 1980, n.p., no. 211, illustrated.
Exhibition catalouge, St Ives & British Modernism, London, Jonathan Clark, 1998, n.p., no. 25, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Jonathan Clark, St Ives & British Modernism, October - November 1998, no. 25.

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

'Because it functions freely and objectively in terms of its own palpable form, an abstract work ultimately demands, for its full realisation the whole gamut of physical dimension. Furthermore, in so far as the process of human perception operates as a three-dimensional experience, it will demand from a work of visual art a similar condition of physical form. This means that the purely abstract artist will be frustrated in his urge for complete development so long as he confines himself to the surface bound medium of painting alone.'
Victor Pasmore

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