Victor Pasmore: A catalogue raisonne of the paintings, constructions and graphics 1926-1979

Artist: Victor Pasmore 
Author: Alan Bowness & Luigi Lambertini
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Date: 1980 
Condition: The first edition hardback, with the original unclipped dust wrapper over grey cloth boards with artist's design; the wrapper with some minor handling marks and the usual rubbing, two small tears to the upper edge, and one tear to the foot of the spine, also one small tear to the top of the wrapper verso. The residue of a Thames & Hudson price sticker on the verso of the wrapper. Internally very clean and tidy and apparently little-used. Signed by the artist in ink to the top of the first flyleaf.

A big book to fulfil a big project, this important monograph and catalogue on Victor Pasmore has been a must-have on the shelves of collectors of post-war British art since its publication. Great production values for the time, there is a lot in this book; not only the essays by Bowness and Lambertini, but copious quantities of very high quality images in colour and black and white, extracts of Pasmore's writings on art, a bibliography, the catalogue of the paintings and reliefs, plus the catalogue of the graphic works up to 1979.

Pasmore was a key figure for abstraction in the post-war period, having developed in the Euston Road manner in the 1930s but then moved over towards a much more geometric style and then constructions and reliefs, his 'going abstract' was a definite statement of intent and exemplar for many younger artists in the 1950s and 1960s and his teaching was considered influential and revolutionary.