Curtain and Bottle

Paris Separates

Her Handkerchief [SOLD OUT]

Biography

British painter, Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005) has been known for his iconic and vibrant paintings of modern life that reinvigorated traditional artistic genres such as the still life. He was born in west London and studied at Chelsea School of Art, followed by the Royal College of Art.

Celebrated for his mastery of colour, graphic elegance as well as his wit, 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, Patrick Caulfield 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 Leger  who influenced his composition and choice of subject matter.

Selected Exhibitions
2023 Patrick Caulfield: Pass the Peas, Josh Lilley, London, UK
2021 Swinging London, Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London, UK
2020 Patrick Caulfield, Vardaxoglou Gallery, London, UK
2019 Patrick Caulfield: Morning, Night and Noon, Waddington Custot, London, UK
2019 This Life is so Everyday: The Home in British Art 1950-1980, Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2014 Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria, UK
2013 Tate Britain, London
2013 Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
2010 No New Thing Under the Sun, Tennant Gallery, Royal
2010 Academy of Arts, London, UK
2010 Group Exhibition, Waddington Galleries, London, UK
2009 Prints 1964-1999, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2009 Patrick Caulfield: Between the Lines, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
2006 Special Summer Exhibition Show, Royal Academy, London, UK
2006 Prints, Tate Gallery Liverpool, UK
2006 How to Improve the World, Hayward Gallery, London (touring the UK)
2005 Print Retrospective, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
2004 Two Collectors and Two Galleries, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
2002 Waddington Galleries, London, UK
2000 Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery, London, UK
1999 Alan Cristea Gallery, London (print retrospective), UK
1999 Hayward Gallery, London
1996 Claudine Papillon, Paris
1992-93 Retrospective, Serpentine Gallery, London
1987 British Art in the Twentieth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
1986 Forty Years of Modern Art 1945-85, Tate Gallery, London, UK
1983 Print Retrospective, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
1982 Retrospective, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1981 Patrick Caulfield: Paintings 1963-81, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Tate Britain, London, UK
1979 Waddington Galleries, London, UK
1978 Tate Gallery, London, UK
1969 Pop Art, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1968 Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, NY, US
1965 Robert Fraser Gallery, London, UK
1964 The New Generation, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1961 Young Contemporaries, R.B.A. Galleries, London, UK

Selected Public Collections
AU Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
AU National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
DE Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
UK Government Art Collection London
UK National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
UK Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Tate Gallery, London
UK Victoria and Albert Museum, London
UK Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
USA Dallas Museum, Dallas, TX
USA Harry N Abrams Collection, New York, NY
USA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA