Painter, printmaker

Biography

1908 Born in Chelsham, Surrey

1923-27 Educated at Harrow, where he studied traditional painting. He gravitated towards slightly Impressionist landcape painting.

1927-32 Moved to London and took evening classes at Central School of Art while working for London County Coucil. Become associated with London avant-garde and introduced to revolutionary School of Paris.

1932 Elected to London Artist' Association

1934 Elected member of London Group and becomes associated with Objective Abstractions only to abandon abstract painting to return again to painting from the visual model

1938 Stops working for the Government and become full-time painting teacher at Euston Road School

1942-47 Moves to Chiswick then to Hammersmith where he paints his riverside pictures

1943 Appointed teacher at Camberwell School of Art after Euston Road School dissolves. Painting become more French Post-Impressionist

1947-51 Moves to Blackheath. His painting reaches an impasse and his influence shifts from Post-Impressionism to Mondrian, Paul Klee and Ben Nicholson

1949 Leaves Camberwell to join faculty at Central School of Art

1951 Begins to develop from flat painting to relief painting. Joins with Kenneth Martin & Robert Adams for post-war abstract painting and sculpture in England

1954 Leaves Central School and becomes Director of Painting in Department of Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Appointed Consulting Director of Urban Design for the South West Area, Peterlee New Town in County Durham

1961 Leaves Univeristy of Newcastle to join Marlborough Gallery in London

1965 Joins Gallery Lorenzelli, Milan

1966 Acquires house and studio in Malta

1971 Joins 2RC workshop in Rome

Bibliography

1965 Victor Pasmore, Retrospective Exhibition 1925-65, Tate Gallery, London

1980 Victor Pasmore, Arts Council, London

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1932 First one-man exhibition at the

1940 Wildenstein Gallery, London

1947 Redfern Gallery, London

1949 Redfern Gallery, London

1960 Retrospective exhibition at British Pavilion, XXX Venice Biennale, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Stadische Kunst Galerie, Bochum, Kunsterners Hus, Oslo, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Kunsthalle, Bern and the Marlborough Gallery, London

1965 Retrospective at Tate Gallery

Retrospective of abstract paintings and constructions at Sao Paolo Bienal, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Lima, Santiago

1967 Marlborough Gallery, New York

1974 Graphics exhibition, Galleria 2RC, Rome

1975 Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta

1978 Galleria 2RC, Rome

1979 one-man exhibition included in Graphics International Biennial, Llubjana, also at Marlborough Galleries in London and Zurich

Selected Group Exhibitions

1948 London Group

1978 Musee des Beaux Arts, Chaux de Fonds, and at Gentofte Radhus, Copenhagen

Collections

National Gallery, London, Tate Gallery, London, Marlborough Fine Art, London, Marlborough Gallery, Zurich, Marlborough Gallery, Rome, Galleria Lorenzelli, Milan, Valletta Museum of Fine Arts, Malta, Musee des Beaux Arts, Switzerland, Galerie Farber, Brussels, National Gallery of Western Australia, Perth,

Awards

1964 Carnegie Prize with Soulages at the Pittsburgh International

1977 Grand Prix d'Honneur, Graphics International Biennial, Llubjana

Public commissions

1950 Painted spiral ceramic mural for Festival of Britain (through this meets many architects and becomes interested in modern architecture)