Victor Pasmore 1908 - 1998 Reclining Nude 1942 N05975 Oil on canvas 305 x 407 (12 x 16) Inscribed in
pencil on stretcher in another hand «purchased Sir Muirhead Bone, February 194 -LSB-?
Bare canvas and
pencil lines visible between the stripes insist
on the object and its making, and so does the wood of the
stretcher, set thick dimension out.
T03191 Oil
on canvas, 914 x 911 mm (36 x 35 7/8 in) Inscribed by the artist in
pencil on back «CHANCE, ORDER, CHANGE 12 (RED, GREEN, BLUE, MAUVE) 1980 Kenneth Martin»
on upper
stretcher Purchased from the Waddington Galleries, London (Grant - in Aid) 1980 Exhibited: Kenneth Martin: Late Paintings, Serpentine Gallery, London, June - August 1985 (not in catalogue) Forty Years of Modern Art, Tate Gallery, London, February - April 1986 (no number, reproduced in colour) Kenneth und Mary Martin, Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, March - April 1989 (60) Literature: Tate Gallery Acquisitions 1980 - 2, London 1984, p.176 - 7, reproduced The series of Chance, Order, Change compositions to which Chance, Order, Change 12 (Four Colours) 1980 and the closely related Chance, Order, Change 6 (Black) 1978 - 9 (Tate T03190) belong was begun by Kenneth Martin in 1976 and continued until his death in 1984.
You can see the lines of the
pencil, because I don't work with the painting
on a
stretcher, I put it against the wall to create a hard surface, and then I just paint from the lightest to the darkest colour.