Blue Development III
This work was produced at a time when Pasmore had moved from experimenting with collage and three-dimensional reliefs and returned to painting. Originally, Blue Development was composed of many small, blue, rough squares which resembled the dotted technique employed by the artist in earlier landscape paintings. The little squares formed a loose and strangely biological form closing round a sharp, black square which appears to stand out from the surface. In 1965 the work was loaned to an exhibition in Latin America during which time it underwent a metamorphosis when the blue dots faded. This was probably due to the nature of the materials used by the artist and to the hot climate. Pasmore was offered the opportunity to rework the painting, but preferred to leave it almost untouched.
