Victor Pasmore
Points of Contact No. 29 (L. G3), 1979
- Medium
- Screenprint in colours on Arches paper
- Dimensions
- 40.2 x 40.3 cm
- Edition
- 31/70; edition of 70 plus 20 artist's proofs; sheet 70.2 x 50.5 cm
Joseph Clark Collection · JCC-0036
About the work
Points of Contact No. 29 invites attention to relationships rather than a depicted scene. Forms, edges and intervals become the means through which the image establishes its own order. Made in 1979, the screenprint belongs to Victor Pasmore’s sustained exploration of abstraction across painting, print and constructed relief, where space is an active element of the composition.
About the artist
Victor Pasmore (1908–1998) was a British painter and printmaker whose career moved from representational painting to abstraction. He helped establish the Euston Road School in 1937 and later became an influential teacher, developing approaches that encouraged close attention to form, structure and perception.
His abstract work includes paintings, relief constructions and prints. In graphic series such as Points of Contact, organic shapes, lines and areas of colour create relationships that do not depend on a recognisable subject. Pasmore also worked on the design of the new town of Peterlee, extending his concern with the organisation of space beyond the individual artwork.