Patrick Caulfield (1936-2005)

'His pictures are indescribable of course, except that he was not a Pop artist but rather a very modern, up-to-date and cool maker of pictures which constantly refer to other art and to appearances of a kind which can be codified, such as cast shadows, preferably from artificial light. His technique is so elegant and self-effacing that the sudden eruptions of perfect trompe l'oeil, particularly of flowers and joints of meat, seem shocking. But the suppression of all autograph marks is moving and impressive: his paintings are the expression of a magnificent and noble temperament.'
-Howard Hodgkin