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    • Victor Pasmore, R.A. (1908-199
    Lot 162

    Victor Pasmore, R.A. (1908-1998)

    Riverside Gardens, Hammersmith

    Price realised

    GBP 27,500

    Estimate

    GBP 25,000 - GBP 35,000

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    Victor Pasmore, R.A. (1908-1998)
    Riverside Gardens, Hammersmith
    signed with initials 'VP' (lower right)
    oil and charcoal on canvas
    18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)
    Painted in 1946.

    Provenance

    with Roland Browse and Delbanco, London, 1947.
    Dr Henry M. Roland, his sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1993, lot 50.
    Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 December 2001, lot 63.
    with Jonathan Clark Fine Art, London, where purchased by the present owners, July 2003.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Time and Tide, 25 July 1953.
    Art News and Review, 25 July 1953.
    A. Bowness and L. Lambertini, Victor Pasmore: with a Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Constructions and Graphics, 1926-1979, London, 1980, p. 64, no. 100, illustrated.


    Exhibited

    London, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, Colour, Pure & Atmospheric, May - June 1947, no. 32.
    York, City Art Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, The Euston Road School, September - October 1948, no. 40: this exhibition travelled to Leicester, Museum and Art Gallery, October - November; Coleg Harlech, November - December; Manchester, City Art Gallery, December 1948 - January 1949; Doncaster, Art Gallery and Museum, January; and Blackburn, Lewis Textile Museum, February, ex-catalogue.
    York, City Art Gallery, Henry Roland Collection, March 1950, no. 36: this exhibition travelled to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Hatton Gallery, April - May; Leicester, City Museum and Art Gallery, June - July, no. 40; and Brighton, Art Gallery, September, no. 41.
    Bristol, City Art Gallery, Festival of Britain Exhibition - Contemporary British Painting, May - June 1951, no. 48.
    Hampstead, Artists' Council, Exhibition of modern painting & sculpture of the British & Continental schools, from the collection of Dr H.M. Roland, January - February 1952, no. 42.
    Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, 1952, no. 284.
    Southampton, Art Gallery, Modern Painting & Sculpture of the British & Continental Schools from the collection of Dr Henry M. Roland, November - December 1952, no. 40: this exhibition travelled to Bournemouth, College of Art, 1952-53.
    London, Roland Browse and Delbanco, Names to Remember, 1953, exhibition not traced.
    Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, Three Masters of Modern British Painting, May - June 1958, no. 26: this exhibition travelled to Carlisle, Art Gallery; Shrewsbury, Art Gallery; Bournemouth, College of Art; Manchester, City Art Gallery; Cheltenham, Art Gallery; and Belfast, Museum and Art Gallery.
    Manchester, City Art Gallery, Modern Works from the Collection of Henry Roland, June - August 1962, no. 92: this exhibition travelled to Leeds, City Art Gallery.
    Bern, Kunsthalle, Victor Pasmore & William Scott, July - August 1963, no. 1.
    Farnham, Kilmer House Museum, Exhibition of Paintings from Private Collections, 1963, no. 23, exhibition not traced.
    London, Tate Gallery, Victor Pasmore Retrospective, May - June 1965, no. 53.
    Bristol, City Art Gallery, Forty Works from the Collection of Henry Roland, February - March 1969, no. 29.
    Guildford, Guildford Festival, 32 Paintings and Drawings from the Roland Collection, 1969, no. 25, exhibition not traced.
    Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, Forty Pictures from the Roland Collection, April 1974, no. 32.
    Folkestone, Arts Centre, New Metropole, The Roland Collection, March - May 1975, no. 67.
    Guildford, West Surrey College of Art & Design, Works from the Roland Collection, 1975, no. 38, exhibition not traced.
    London, Camden Arts Centre, The Roland Collection, September - October 1976, no. 101.
    London, Courtauld Institute, 75 Works from the Roland Collection, March - May 1979, no. 35: this exhibition travelled to Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts; York, City Art Gallery; Oxford, Ashmolean Museum; Central Milton Keynes; and Plymouth, City Museum and Art Gallery.
    Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, One Man’s Choice, selected by Dr Henry Roland from his own collection and from other sources, April - May 1985, no. 79.


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    PROPERTY FROM THE CLAIRE AND GARRICK STEPHENSON COLLECTION

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