Linear Motif in Black & White

Victor Pasmore (1909 - 1998)

Laing Art Gallery

circa 1959-1960

This work was produced during the period that Pasmore was Head of Fine Art at Newcastle University, where he set up the influential Art Foundation course, establishing Newcastle as a significant centre of art development in Britain. The work is part of the important period in Pasmore's career from 1952 to 1966/7 when he was producing relief works and was constructed from ready-made boards assembled together and painted. The somewhat rough construction shows that this is one of Pasmore's self-assembled reliefs. This relief reflects Pasmore's continuing interest in light and space, previously explored in collage and figurative river scenes.

• Medium: painted plywood relief in mahogany surround
• Dimensions: 123 x 123cm
• Art Fund Grant: £13630 ( Total: £47,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2009
• Vendor: Anderson & Garland

Provenance

Kenneth Rowntree; by descent to consignor.

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