Points of Contact No.25

Victor Pasmore (1908 - 1998)

Screenprint

1974

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Luxembourg
    City: Luxembourg
    Place: British Embassy
    In 1951, the artist Victor Pasmore said that he tried ‘...to compose [his artworks] as music is composed, with formal elements, which, in themselves, have no descriptive qualities at all’. This work, one of a series of prints, explores this idea. Areas of saturated colour are contrasted, in the screenprint, with thin spindly lines to create an image that brings to mind the rhythm or the sense of a musical composition. In an interview by Lance Sjoberg in 1988 Pasmore took this analogy with music a step further, stating that ‘The musical analogy is quite valid, but only in terms of the eye... As I see it, the problem is not to formalize the visual world by means of abstract shapes; instead, it is to produce independent visual forms which can induce, in themselves, conceptual ideas.
  • About the artist
    Victor Pasmore was one of the leading British painters and printmakers of the twentieth century. He studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and began exhibiting with the London Group in 1930, becoming a member in 1934. Together with William Coldstream, Claude Rogers and Graham Bell, he founded the Euston Road School in 1937. Concerned with developing an objective approach to the depiction of everyday subjects, their paintings depicted realistic subjects in a realistic manner. Pasmore taught at the Camberwell School of Art from 1943 to 1949,and turned from representational to abstract art towards the end of this period. Awarded the CBE in 1959, his work was selected for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1960, after which he gave up teaching to focus on his art practice. He received a series of prizes for his graphic works in the 1970s and his work is represented in public collections throughout the world. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1981 and elected a Royal Academician two years later. He died in Malta in 1998.
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  • Details
    Artist
    Victor Pasmore (1908 - 1998)
    Title
    Points of Contact No.25
    Edition
    20/70
    Date
    1974
    Medium
    Screenprint
    Dimensions
    height: 91.50 cm, width: 63.50 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Marlborough Graphics, March 1976
    Inscription
    below image: 20/70 / VP 74
    GAC number
    12283