Live Auction 12224Modern British & Irish Art Day Sale
Patrick Caulfield, R.A. (1936-2005)
Lot 196 50 YEARS OF CONNOISSEURSHIP: PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

Patrick Caulfield, R.A. (1936-2005)

Glass & Plate, Black & White Checks

Closed21 June 2016

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GBP 218,500

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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.)

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

Specialist note

‘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)