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Victor Pasmore (1908-1998) 
Aliases: Edwin John Victor Pasmore; Victore Pasmore; Viktor Pasmore
Professions: Etcher; Lithographer; Painter; Sculptor
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Victor Pasmore, R.A. (1908-1998)
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Biography: Pasmore
(b Chelsham, Surrey, 3 Dec 1908; d Gudja, Malta, 23 Jan 1998). English painter and printmaker. He developed an interest in painting as a schoolboy at Harrow, but the early death of his father prevented him from carrying on his studies at this stage. From 1927 to 1937 he worked as a clerk at the Head Office of the London County Council, painting in his spare time and paying frequent visits to the Tate Gallery and the National Gallery; he became a member of the London Artists’ Association in 1932 and of the London Group in 1934. His early paintings, such as The Window (1933; London, Dept Environment), were reminiscent of Matisse and the Fauvists in their free handling and their subject-matter of still-life and views through open windows, though he also took part in the Objective Abstractions exhibition (1934; London, Zwemmer Gal.), at which Geoffrey Tibble (1909–52), Rodrigo Moynihan, Graham Bell and others displayed fully abstract work. Pasmore himself made a number of abstract pictures shortly after this exhibition but later decided to destroy them.
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