Etching on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/victor-pasmore-1744" aria-label="More by Victor Pasmore" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Victor Pasmore</a>
Villa dei Misteri
Presented by the artist 1981
abstraction
colour
irregular forms
non-representational
paper print etching
24 August 2009 – 20 September 2011
2011-09-20
24 August 2009 – 20 September 2011
2011-09-20
2009-08-24
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2009-08-24
Victor Pasmore
Collection based display
Villa dei Misteri
image: 692 × 1988 mm
Presented by the artist 1981
<p><b>P02546</b> VILLA DEI MISTERI 1980
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<br/>Inscribed ‘VP 80’ bottom right and ‘XIII/XV’
<br/>Etching, printed and published by 2 RC, Rome in an edition of 90, 27 1/4×78 1/4 (69.2× 198.7)
<br/>Presented by the artist 1981
<br/>Lit: Victor Pasmore: Towards New Symbols, op. cit.
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<br/>'Il Mostro’ [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/pasmore-il-mostro-p07415" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07415</span></a>] was the first of a series of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etchings</span></a> made at the 2RC studio in Rome, for which Pasmore used a very direct method of working on the plate to produce large and fluid areas of colour <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/aquatint" title="Glossary definition for 'Aquatint'"><span>aquatint</span></a>. He poured a solvent onto the varnished copper plate, controlling the run and spread of the liquid. The area thus bared for aquatinting and etching was then modified and augmented to complete the image. ‘Un Bel di Vedremo’ [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/pasmore-un-bel-di-vedremo-puccini-p02545" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P02545</span></a>] and ‘Stromboli’ [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/pasmore-stromboli-p07416" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07416</span></a>] were done in the same way, but for ‘Villa dei Misteri’ [P02546<b>]</b> Pasmore made the large colour areas more controlled, also overlaying small colour shapes. Pasmore had first worked at 2RC in 1970; he has since worked there many times, taking advantage of the unusually large plate sizes they can accomodate on their big press.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1984
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-08T00:00:00
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abstraction colour irregular forms non-representational