λ VICTOR PASMORE (BRITISH 1908-1998) MILLBANK Oil on canvas Signed with initials (lower left) 51 x 68cm (20 x 26¾ in.) Painted circa 1929.Provenance:Purchased directly from the artist by Dr. Stella Churchill and thence by descent until sold Christie's, South Kensington, 7 November 2006, lot 99, where purchased by Robert Kime Born in Chelsham, Surrey, Victor Pasmore developed a keen interest in painting at Harrow School. His art master there recognised his burgeoning talent and was keen to nourish his affection for art by introducing him to the work of the French Impressionists. Unfortunately, his studies were curtailed with the untimely death of his father in 1927 and he was forced to take employment at the London County Council. For the next decade Pasmore worked in the Public Health Department but continued to paint in his spare time. He would frequently turn down promotion so that his menial day job would not encroach on the time he had to paint. It was here in the Public Health Department that Pasmore first met Dr. Stella Churchill, the original owner of the present work. She had been asked to psychologically assess Pasmore after it had been purported that he had thrown a typewriter out of the window! During this time he attended evening classes at the LCC Central School of Arts and Crafts under the lithographer and watercolourist A.S. Hartrick. It was here that he met other artists and first encountered the revolutionary School of Paris. After visiting France in 1927 and 1928, Pasmore moved into his studio in Devonshire Street and it was here that he painted Millbank. The present work is one of only a few paintings that survive from this early period. Fellow Euston Road School artist Claude Rogers suggested that `Few of Pasmore's early works are catalogued (and known to exist), and around 1931 Pasmore was painting `twice as many canvases as Coldstream and I combined', A reasonable explanation is that many canvases may have been turned and re-used. (B. Laughton, The Euston Road School, Aldershot, 1985, p.53)
λ VICTOR PASMORE (BRITISH 1908-1998) MILLBANK Oil on canvas Signed with initials (lower left) 51 x 68cm (20 x 26¾ in.) Painted circa 1929.Provenance:Purchased directly from the artist by Dr. Stella Churchill and thence by descent until sold Christie's, South Kensington, 7 November 2006, lot 99, where purchased by Robert Kime Born in Chelsham, Surrey, Victor Pasmore developed a keen interest in painting at Harrow School. His art master there recognised his burgeoning talent and was keen to nourish his affection for art by introducing him to the work of the French Impressionists. Unfortunately, his studies were curtailed with the untimely death of his father in 1927 and he was forced to take employment at the London County Council. For the next decade Pasmore worked in the Public Health Department but continued to paint in his spare time. He would frequently turn down promotion so that his menial day job would not encroach on the time he had to paint. It was here in the Public Health Department that Pasmore first met Dr. Stella Churchill, the original owner of the present work. She had been asked to psychologically assess Pasmore after it had been purported that he had thrown a typewriter out of the window! During this time he attended evening classes at the LCC Central School of Arts and Crafts under the lithographer and watercolourist A.S. Hartrick. It was here that he met other artists and first encountered the revolutionary School of Paris. After visiting France in 1927 and 1928, Pasmore moved into his studio in Devonshire Street and it was here that he painted Millbank. The present work is one of only a few paintings that survive from this early period. Fellow Euston Road School artist Claude Rogers suggested that `Few of Pasmore's early works are catalogued (and known to exist), and around 1931 Pasmore was painting `twice as many canvases as Coldstream and I combined', A reasonable explanation is that many canvases may have been turned and re-used. (B. Laughton, The Euston Road School, Aldershot, 1985, p.53)
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