Victor Pasmore

For the first time, this book surveys the career of renowned British artist Victor Pasmore (1908-1998) through the artist's own writings. Fully illustrating his most important works, from early representational paintings through to the abstract reliefs for which he is perhaps best known, Victor Pasmore:Writings and Interviews presents an intimate account of the development of a rich and varied body of work that significantly included participation in the design of the new town Peterlee, in County Durham. His pursuit of abstract art can be read in his correspondence with Ben Nicholson while personal writings from Pasmore's time spent in Malta describe his experimentation with printmaking techniques and his investigation of Surrealism.

The most important new book on Victor Pasmore for many years, this is an essential read both for enthusiasts and newcomers to his work.

Alastair Grieve is an art historian, previously at the University of East Anglia and the University of Leeds, and curated the Arts Council Touring Exhibition Victor Pasmore. He is the author of Constructed Abstract Art in England after the Second World War (2005) and The Sculpture of Robert Adams (1992).

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Artists Biography

(b Chelsham, Surrey, 3 Dec 1908; d Gudja, Malta, 23 Jan 1998). English painter and printmaker. He developed an interest in painting as a schoolboy at Harrow, but the early death of his father prevented him from carrying on his studies at this stage. From 1927 to 1937 he worked as a clerk at the Head Office of the London County Council, painting in his spare time and paying frequent visits to the Tate Gallery and the National Gallery; he became a member of the London Artists’ Association in 1932 and of the London Group in 1934. His early paintings, such as The Window (1933; London, Dept Environment), were reminiscent of Matisse and the Fauvists in their free handling and their subject-matter of still-life and views through open windows, though he also took part in the Objective Abstractions exhibition (1934; London, Zwemmer Gal.), at which Geoffrey Tibble (1909–52), Rodrigo Moynihan, Graham Bell and others displayed fully abstract work. Pasmore himself made a number of abstract pictures shortly after this exhibition but later decided to destroy them.

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