Patrick Calufield

Patrick Caulfield’s Occasional Table, 1972, portrays a still life in Caulfield’s iconic style of flat areas of colour with objects defined by simple black outlines. It was printed by Kelpra Studio which was founded in 1957 and contributed to the widespread adoption of silkscreen printing in the fine art world during the 1960s. The founders Rose and Chris Prater presented an Artist Proof of this edition to Tate’s Collection in 1975.

Number 311 of 500 from this edition is available to purchase. Some minor age spots are visible on the outer border and reverse of the print. The price is adjusted accordingly and a condition report including images is available.

This print is signed and numbered on the front by the artist in the pencil. Prices of the artwork are liable to change. As a limited edition sells out, prices of the artwork are subject to increase and the price will be clearly indicated.

• Artist Patrick Calufield
• Artwork Occasional Table
• Dimensions 74 x 102 cm (image 58.4 x 71.4 cm)
• Material Screen print on Arches wove pape
• Edition 311 of 500
• Date of work 1972

Caulfield (1936 – 2005, b. London, UK) studied at Chelsea School of Art, followed by the Royal College of Art. Patrick Caulfield came to prominence in the mid-1960s after studying at the Royal College of Art where fellow students included David Hockney. Through his participation in the defining The New Generation exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1964, he became associated with Pop Art. However, he resisted this label throughout his career, instead preferring to see himself as a ‘formal artist’ and an inheritor of painting traditions from Modern Masters such as Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger who influenced his composition and choice of subject matter.

From the 1960s, Caulfield is known for his iconic and vibrant paintings of modern life that reinvigorated traditional artistic genres such as the still life. Caulfield radically re-imagined still life and domestic interiors to produce paintings and prints with startling originality.

Major exhibitions during his lifetime included retrospectives at Walker Art Gallery Liverpool and Tate (both 1981), Serpentine (1992–3) and Hayward Gallery (1999). Tate Britain presented a survey exhibition in 2013. Caulfield was elected a Royal Academician in 1993.