VICTOR PASMORE, C.H., R.A. (1908-1998)
VICTOR PASMORE, C.H., R.A. (1908-1998)
VICTOR PASMORE, C.H., R.A. (1908-1998)
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VICTOR PASMORE, C.H., R.A. (1908-1998)

Brown Development

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VICTOR PASMORE, C.H., R.A. (1908-1998)
Brown Development
signed with initials and dated 'VP./ /65' (on the reverse)
oil on panel, relief
69 1/2 x 49 in. (176.5 x 124.5 cm.)
Painted in 1965.
Provenance
Wendy Pasmore.
with Marlborough Fine Art, London, where purchased by Rudolf and Leonore Blum in May 1969, and by descent.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Victor Pasmore: The Space Within, New Paintings 1968-69, London, Marlborough Fine Art, 1969, illustrated on the back cover, as 'Brown Development no. 3'.
Exhibition catalogue, A Selection of 20th Century British Art on board Queen Elizabeth 2, London, Cunard-Marlborough Gallery, 1969, n.p., illustrated.
A. Bowness and L. Lambertini (intro.), Victor Pasmore: with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Constructions and Graphics 1926-1979, Milan, 1980, n.p., no. 348, illustrated.
Exhibited
Brazil, British Council, VIII Biennial de São Paulo Gra-Bretanha 1965: Victor Pasmore, Patrick Heron, September - November 1965, no. 13, as 'Brown Development no. 3'.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Victor Pasmore: The Space Within, New Paintings 1968-69, March - April 1969, no. 1, as 'Brown Development no. 3'.
London, Cunard-Marlborough Gallery, A Selection of 20th Century British Art on Board Queen Elizabeth 2, May 1969, as 'Brown Development no. 3'.
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Lot Essay

Victor Pasmore considered Brown Development No. 3 to be one of his best works. For this reason it was selected to be included in Cunard Marlborough’s inaugural exhibition of 20th Century British Art aboard Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) in 1969, where it was displayed on the boat deck. Previous to this, the work belonged to the artist’s wife, Wendy Pasmore, who was also an artist. Speaking about this series of Developments, Pasmore said: ‘in calling this a development a work of art we are initiating a new creative process into the history of Western culture because, if we analyse the means by which our object was brought into being, we find that it was essentially intrinsic. What mattered initially was not what our scribble would represent, but what it might become’ (V. Pasmore quoted in exhibition catalogue, Victor Pasmore: The Space Within, New Paintings 1968-69, London, Marlborough Fine Art, 1969, n.p.).

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