Title
Relief construction in white, black, maroon and ochre
1956-1957
1961
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Abstract in white, black, maroon and ochre
- Dates
- 1956-1957
1961 - Media category
- Mixed media painting
- Materials used
- ochre and synthetic polymer paint on wood
- Dimensions
- 68.5 x 73.5 cm board; 104.0 x 104.0 cm backboard; 108.5 x 108.5 x 12.5 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed c. verso frame, black paint "VP". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1967
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- OB2.1967
- Copyright
- © Estate of the Artist, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art, London
- Artist information
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Victor Pasmore
Works in the collection
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About
'Relief construction in white, black, maroon and ochre' is from a series of reliefs made between 1954-58. Pasmore made the original rough model for this work in 1956-57 but it was not made up until just before the 1961 New London Gallery exhibition. Early reliefs were made by Pasmore himself but later works were made by a joiner, working from a maquette and then painted by Pasmore.
This series was begun at a time when Pasmore was collaborating with architects in the design of housing for the south west area of the new town of Peterlee, County Durham. Works from this period can be related to the town's plans and show early architectural concerns, which later became fluid town-planning.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Recent paintings and constructions by Victor Pasmore, New London Gallery, London, Mar 1961–Mar 1961
Victor Pasmore Retrospective Exhibition 1925-65, Tate Britain, England, 14 May 1965–27 Jun 1965
Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 05 Jul 2017–08 Oct 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 8 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, 59 (colour illus.).
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Sir Alan Bowness and Luigi Lambertini, Victor Pasmore: with a catalogue raisonne of the paintings, constructions and graphics, 1926-1979, London, 1980, 104 (illus.). cat.no. 197 as 'Abstract in white, black, maroon and ochre'
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Ronald Davey, Victor Pasmore 1958-1960, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1960, (illus.). pl. 12
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Renée Free, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue of British paintings, Sydney, 1987, 146 (illus.).
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Anne Kirker and Peter Tomory, British painting 1800–1990 in Australian and New Zealand public collections, Sydney, 1997, 144. cat.no. 1714
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New London Gallery, Recent paintings and constructions by Victor Pasmore, London, 1961. cat.no. 26
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Tate Britain, Victor Pasmore retrospective exhibition 1925-1965, London, 1965, (illus.). pl. 45, cat.no. 129
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1967 Acquisitions, Sydney, 1967. cat.no. 49
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Provenance
New London Gallery, Mar 1961, London/England
K.A. Wood, Mar 1961-24 Feb 1967, Purchased by the AGNSW from KA Wood 1967. Purchased by KA Wood from the New London Gallery, March 1961, on loan to AGNSW from March 1961.
