Lot 164
  • 164

Victor Pasmore, R.A.

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Victor Pasmore, R.A.
  • Line and Space No.18
  • signed with initials and inscribed on the backboard
  • oil and gravure on board
  • overall: 91 by 91cm.; 35¾ by 35¾in.
  • Executed in 1963.

Provenance

Marlborough Fine Art, London
Richard Salmon Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner in the late 1990s

Exhibited

Milan, Galleria Lorenzelli, Victor Pasmore, 1964, cat. no.12, illustrated.

Literature

Alan Bowness & Luigi Lambertini (intros), Victor Pasmore with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Constructions and Graphiscs 1926-1979, Thames and Hudson, London, 1980, cat. no.350, illustrated (as Linear Composition, dated 1964).

Condition

Structurally sound, the board is secured, float-mounted within a white Perspex and metal box frame. There are one or two tiny traces of surface matter to the board, but this excepting the work appears in very good overall appearance. Ultraviolet light reveals traces of fluorescence and retouchings to the white pigment. These have all been sensitively executed. Housed in a wooden and white Perspex box frame with specks of surface matter, discoloured edges and signs of slight glue residue. The Perspex is coming away ever so slightly at the top of the extreme left hand edge. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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