Victor Pasmore

1908–1998

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Walk Through British Art: 1940

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93 artworks by Victor Pasmore

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Biography

Edwin John Victor Pasmore, CH, CBE (3 December 1908 – 23 January 1998) was a British artist. He pioneered the development of abstract art in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Artworks

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Victor Pasmore Spiral Motif in Green, Violet, Blue and Gold: The Coast of the Inland Sea

1950

On display at Tate St Ives part of Modern Conversations
Victor Pasmore Abstract in White, Green, Black, Blue, Red, Grey and Pink

c.1963
Victor Pasmore Square Motif, Blue and Gold: The Eclipse

1950

On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art
Victor Pasmore Relief Construction in White, Black and Maroon

1962–3
Victor Pasmore Points of Contact No. 2

1964

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Victor Pasmore The Hanging Gardens of Hammersmith, No. 1

1944–7

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Victor Pasmore The Gardens of Hammersmith No. 2

1949
Victor Pasmore Reclining Nude

1942

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Artist as subject

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Victor Pasmore Lamplight

1941
Nigel Henderson Photograph showing interior of a room with a desk and chair

[June 1951]

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Nigel Henderson Photograph showing interior of a room with works, possibly by Victor Pasmore

[June 1951]

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Henry Moore OM, CH, recipient: Kenneth Clark Letter from Henry Moore to Kenneth Clark

22 July 1939

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Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Postcard from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell

[13 June 1940]
Graham Sutherland OM Sketchbook 37

[c.1961–7]
Anonymous Photograph of Ben Nicholson and Felicitas Vogler at Victor Pasmore’s exhibition, Venice

June 1960
J. Leger & Son (London, UK) J. Leger & Son exhibition catalogue titled ‘Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings & Sculptures: Nudes by Contemporary Artists’

January–February 1942
Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant Letters from Vanessa Bell and Claude Rogers to Duncan Grant

[24 November 1949]

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Film and audio

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Late At Tate: Chris Stevens

Chris Stephens, curator of modern British art and head of displays at Tate Britain will be discussing the aesthetics of …

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Art Term

Objective abstraction

The term objective abstraction refers to a non-geometric style of abstract art developed by a group of British artists in …
Art Term

Constructionism

Constructionism was an extension of constructivism in Britain from about 1950, with artists using naturally occurring proportional systems and rhythms …
Art Term

Euston Road School

The Euston Road School was a British realist group formed in 1938 of artists who either taught or studied at …
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Victor Pasmore's Black Abstract

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Through Pasmore's eyes: Behind the curtain

Paul Bailey

In his first visit to the Tate archive, the writer Paul Bailey is surprised to find an early painted sketch …