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Dating from circa 1929, Millbank is painted under the varied influences of the School of Paris. The present work clearly acknowledges the French Impressionists and is equally reminiscent of Fauvist free-handling and subject matter of views through open windows.
Born in Chelsham, Surrey, Pasmore developed a keen interest in painting as a school boy at Harrow. His art master was supportive and he was keen to nourish Pasmore's affection for art by an introduction to the work of the French Impressionists. Unfortunately, with the untimely death of his father he was prevented from carrying on his studies and his family moved to London in 1927.
For a decade from 1927, Pasmore worked in the Public Health Department of the Local County Council where he remained painting in his spare time. He frequently turned down promotion in these years so that his menial day job would not encroach on his passion for painting. It was here at the Public Health Department that Pasmore first met Dr. Stella Churchill who had been asked to psychologically asses him after an incident in which it was purported that Pasmore through a typewriter out of the window. During the first four of these years (1927-1931), he attended evening lessons at the LCC Central School of Arts and Crafts under A.S. Hartrick, an extremely practised lithographer and watercolourist. Pasmore encountered a number of artists here and it was they who introduced him in 1927 to the revolutionary School of Paris.
After various holidays to France in 1927 and 1928, Pasmore moved into his first painting-room in Devonshire Street where he painted Millbank. The present work is, perhaps, one of very few paintings to survive of Pasmore's pre-1931 period. Claude Rogers suggests, 'Few of Pasmore's early works are catalogued (and known to exist), and around 1931 Pasmore was painting 'twice as many canvases as Coldstream and I combined'. A reasonable explanation is that many canvases may have been turned and re-used. (B. Laughton, The Euston Road School, Aldershot, 1986, p. 53)
Born in Chelsham, Surrey, Pasmore developed a keen interest in painting as a school boy at Harrow. His art master was supportive and he was keen to nourish Pasmore's affection for art by an introduction to the work of the French Impressionists. Unfortunately, with the untimely death of his father he was prevented from carrying on his studies and his family moved to London in 1927.
For a decade from 1927, Pasmore worked in the Public Health Department of the Local County Council where he remained painting in his spare time. He frequently turned down promotion in these years so that his menial day job would not encroach on his passion for painting. It was here at the Public Health Department that Pasmore first met Dr. Stella Churchill who had been asked to psychologically asses him after an incident in which it was purported that Pasmore through a typewriter out of the window. During the first four of these years (1927-1931), he attended evening lessons at the LCC Central School of Arts and Crafts under A.S. Hartrick, an extremely practised lithographer and watercolourist. Pasmore encountered a number of artists here and it was they who introduced him in 1927 to the revolutionary School of Paris.
After various holidays to France in 1927 and 1928, Pasmore moved into his first painting-room in Devonshire Street where he painted Millbank. The present work is, perhaps, one of very few paintings to survive of Pasmore's pre-1931 period. Claude Rogers suggests, 'Few of Pasmore's early works are catalogued (and known to exist), and around 1931 Pasmore was painting 'twice as many canvases as Coldstream and I combined'. A reasonable explanation is that many canvases may have been turned and re-used. (B. Laughton, The Euston Road School, Aldershot, 1986, p. 53)