Victor Pasmore: With a Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings, Constructions and Graphics, 1926-1979

Artist: Victor Pasmore 
Authors: Alan Bowness and Luigi Lambertini 
Publisher: Thames & Hudson 
Date: 1980 
Condition: A very clean copy internally of this large-format volume, a little discolouration to the edges, with dust wrapper. The wrapper is complete, with small chips to the bottom leading corners and rear by the spine, a little shelf-marking to the colour on the cover as is usual, an old mark to the reverse where a price sticker has been removed. Some grubiness to the top edge and top of spine of wrapper.

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.