Pipe and Blind

Discussing the pipe pictures, Marco Livingstone comments: 'The most prevalent images in his recent pictures are pipes and glasses of wine, whisky or beer in smoke filled pub interiors ... the pipes are perhaps there simply as a source for the smoke we imagine as proper to the airless atmosphere of these locales; Caulfield is a good host and he wants to make sure we feel relaxed and in our element. Or perhaps the pipes function as images of male friendship and tolerance, a sign of social interaction. They're cetrainly not autobiographical signs; I've never seen him smoke' ('Patrick Caulfield: A Text for Silent Pictures, Art and Design Magazine, 7, May-June 1992, p.8).