Glass & Plate, Black & White Checks

Details

Patrick Caulfield, R.A. (1936-2005)
Glass & Plate, Black & White Checks
signed, inscribed and dated 'GLASS & PLATE BLACK & WHITE CHECKS PATRICK CAULFIELD 1972' (on the canvas overlap)
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)

Provenance

Purchased from Waddington Galleries, London, May 1980, and by descent.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Sale room notice

Please note that the correct medium for the present lot is oil on canvas, and not as stated in the catalogue.

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Lot Essay

‘The spaces and interiors we see in real life are always more surprising than those we could invent. Since one can’t actually compete with the unexpectedness of reality, I feel free to invent any contortions of space as long as they work for me. At the same time I don’t want to do something which is so artificial that it becomes surrealism. I want it to have some link with reality’ (P. Caulfield, quoted in M. Livingstone, Patrick Caulfield, London, 2005, p. 101)

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