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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE SAMUEL AND PATRICIA CARRSamuel Carr was chairman of the publishers B.T. Batsford, and a keen collector of Modern British Art. His brother, the well-known Northern Irish painter Tom Carr, introduced Sam to his Slade School and Euston Road School contemporaries. Sam struck up a particularly close friendship with Victor Pasmore and purchased many works directly from him.

Victor Pasmore, R.A. (1908-1998)

The Thames at Hammersmith

Details

Victor Pasmore, R.A. (1908-1998)
The Thames at Hammersmith
signed with initials 'VP' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.)
Painted in 1943.

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Mr Samuel Carr, and by descent.

Exhibited

Wakefield, Arts Council of Great Britain, City Art Gallery, The Euston Road School and Others, May - June 1948, no. 75: this exhibition travelled to Harrogate; Sheffield; and Brighton.
London, Arts Council of Great Britain, The Euston Road School, 1948-49, no. 26.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Although titled The Thames at Hammersmith in the 1948 exhibition the present work closely resembles the view of the Thames at Chiswick as depicted in The Quiet River: The Thames at Chiswick, 1943-44, which is in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London.

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