Artwork details

Artist

Title

The Cave Of Calypso Iv

Description

Hand signed in pencil "VP" in the lower right margin, and dated "77" beside the signature. Hand numbered (34/60) in pencil in the lower left margin. The work is signed in the plate in the lower right margin. In addition, on the reverse the work is titled in pencil The work was printed by White Ink ltd (with their blind stamp and a 'W' watermark too). It was published by Marlborough Graphics in 1977. Excellent condition, never framed.

Part of the Tate online collection...presented by Marlborough Graphics through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1977.

Date

1977

Medium

Etching

Edition

no 34 of an edition of 60

Catalogue Raisonne

Image

37.5 x 37.5 cm

Sheet

68 x 58.5 cm

Price

Price on request

Victor Pasmore

British artist and architect Victor Pasmore pioneered the development of abstract art in Britain in the mid 20th century. He was born in Surrey in December 1908 and studied at Summer Fields School in Oxford and Harrow in West London. His first job was as an administrator at the London County Council. Whilst at this position, Pasmore studied painting at the Central School of Art in his spare time. Pasmore experimented with abstract art, after initially painting in a lyrical figurative style with images such as views of the River Thames from Hammersmith akin to Turner and Whistler. In 1934, clear influences of Monet and Cézanne could be seen in work Pasmore presented at one of his first exhibitions in the Zwemmer gallery in London.