Lung Ch’uan Ware and Window
Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005)
Screenprint
1990-
About the work
- Location
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Country: China
City: Beijing
Place: British Embassy
square offers the only hint of the setting that the vase is situated in. Caulfield said of his work:‘ I’m not actually painting from observation of light, I’m making up an idea of how light could appear to be. The angles of light in naturalistic terms could be totally wrong but they either help the composition of the picture or they help the feeling of light more strongly’. Writing about his depiction of light in the White Ware prints, the art historian and curator Mel Gooding remarked how light in these works was ‘reduced to the most beautifully precise sign in images of startling abstract refinement. Light is the very element of the visual, it is the determinant of colour, it discloses space.’
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About the artist
Born in London in 1936, Patrick Caulfield was a painter and printmaker. He studied Graphic Design and Painting at Chelsea School of Art, and Fine Art at the Royal College of Art. Caulfield started printmaking in 1964 and collaborated with key print studios in London. During the 1970s and ‘80s he also completed numerous commissions for mural, textile and theatrical set designs. Short-listed for the Turner Prize in 1987, Caulfield was later elected a Royal Academician in 1993. In 1995, he shared the Jerwood Painting Prize with the painter Maggi Hambling and received a CBE in the following year. His paintings and prints can be found in numerous public collections in the UK, Japan, Australia, Germany and Portugal. Two years before his death, he participated in a British Council touring group exhibition in South America. A survey exhibition of Caulfield’s work was held at Tate Britain in 2013.
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Explore
- Places
- Subjects
- vase (as Subject), still life, window
- Materials & Techniques
- screenprint
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Details
- Title
- Lung Ch’uan Ware and Window
- Portfolio Title
- White Ware Prints
- Edition
- 17/45
- Date
- 1990
- Medium
- Screenprint
- Dimensions
- width: 81.00 cm, height: 107.50 cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from Alan Cristea Gallery, London, July 2003
- Inscription
- br: Patrick Caulfield 17/45
- Provenance
- Alan Cristea Gallery, London
- GAC number
- 17833