Year: 1977
Medium: Screenprint
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Brief biography: 1936 – 2005. Born in London, UK.
This work was purchased in 2012. Caulfield was a British painter and printmaker known for bold and colourful works. An edition of this print is also in the Tate.
Caulfield was a student at Chelsea School of Art from 1956 – 1960, followed by the Royal College of Art from 1960 – 63, studying alongside David Hockney (also in the University of Salford Art Collection) and Allen Jones.
His work is characterised by a reductive, streamlined use of line and the depiction of banal, everyday objects saturated in colour. He consistently used screenprint for his graphic work following his introduction to the medium by artist Richard Hamilton (also in the University of Salford Art Collection) and printer Chris Prater in 1964. The deceptive simplicity of his images, perfectly matched by the aesthetic capacities of the process, is clear throughout the various phases of his printmaking career.
In 1987 he was nominated for the Turner Prize and in 1993 was elected a Royal Academician. In 1996 he was made a CBE.
Extract taken from the Cristea Roberts Gallery website who sell prints on behalf of the Patrick Caulfield Estate.
https://cristearoberts.com/artists/49-patrick-caulfield/