Exhibitions

Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005) was born in London. He was a student at Chelsea School of Art from 1956 - 1960, followed by the Royal College of Art from 1960 - 63, studying alongside David Hockney and Allen Jones. His subject matter draws more from the masters of modern art such as Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger than from the consumer culture that preoccupied his fellow students.

Caulfield's work is characterised by a reductive, streamlined use of line and the depiction of banal, everyday objects saturated in colour. He consistently used screenprint for his graphic work following his introduction to the medium by artist Richard Hamilton and printer Chris Prater in 1964. The deceptive simplicity of his images, perfectly matched by the aesthetic capacities of the process, is clear throughout the various phases of his printmaking career.

During his lifetime, major retrospectives of his paintings were held at Serpentine Gallery, London (1992); Hayward Gallery, London (1999), which toured to Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, Luxembourg; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, and Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut; Tate, London (1981) and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (1981). In 2006 Caulfield's prints were the subject of a survey at Tate Liverpool, and in 2013 Tate Britain presented a major retrospective of his works. Together with numerous paintings Tate has Caulfield's entire print output, 113 prints made between 1964 and 1999, housed in their collection. Caulfield's works are held by major museums all over the in the world.

In 1987 he was nominated for the Turner Prize and in 1993 was elected a Royal Academician. In 1996 he was made a CBE. Patrick Caulfield died aged 69 in 2005, in London having made an indelible contribution to British painting and printmaking.

Cristea Roberts Gallery is the publisher of the catalogue raisonné of Patrick Caulfield's prints and sells prints on behalf of the Patrick Caulfield Estate.

Education 1956-60 Chelsea School of Art

1960-63 Royal College of Art Selected Exhibitions 2024 Tracing Absence,

Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK Still Live, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK

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 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, UK Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK

2010 No New Thing Under the Sun, Tennant Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Group Exhibition, Waddington Galleries, London, UK 2009 Prints 1964 – 1999, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK Patrick Caulfield: Between the Lines, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK 2006 Special Summer Exhibition Show, Royal Academy, London, UK Prints, Tate Gallery Liverpool, UK 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 Hayward Gallery, London, UK (British Council retrospective touring to Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut)

1992 Retrospective, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

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 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra DE Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld UK Government Art Collection London National Museum of Wales, Cardiff Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Tate Gallery, London Victoria and Albert Museum, London Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool US Dallas Museum, Dallas, TX Harry N Abrams Collection, New York, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Selected Awards 1987 Shortlisted for the Turner Prize 1995 Jerwood Prize 1996 Awarded an Order of the British Empire