Patrick Caulfield
Screenprints
Patrick Caulfield Original screenprints including the full series ‘Some Poems of Jules Laforgue’
12 March - 12 April 2015
Eames Fine Art Gallery
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Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005) Born in Acton, London in 1936, Patrick Caulfield studied at Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art. He is widely regarded as a representative of the third generation of British Pop Art. His first solo exhibition was held in 1965 in London, and his international reputation was quickly established with a string of one-man shows held in the UK and in many countries across the world. Retrospectives of his work were held at the Tate Gallery in London in 1981 and again in 2013. When invited to make a limited edition book by Petersburg Press, Patrick Caulfield chose the poetry of the Franco-Uruguayan poet Jules Laforgue whose work he had first encountered as a student at the Royal College of Art. Caulfield created a series of 22 screenprints, observing that they were ‘complementary images, not illustrations... I tried to imagine what Laforgue might have been looking at when he thought of the poems’. These iconic works epitomise the artist’s characteristic use of simplified, flat images, strong black outlines and block colour. The exhibition features the full series of screenprints illustrating Jules Laforgue’s poems, including both signed and unsigned examples. For the full edition information please see the additional information at the end of the catalogue.
Jules Laforgue (1860 - 1887) Jules Laforgue was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Educated in France, he moved to Paris in 1876 where he began to write and publish his first poems. In 1881 he moved to Berlin, working as a Reader to the Empress Augusta, and in 1886 he returned to Paris with his English wife Leah Lee. Laforgue died from tuberculosis in 1887, aged 27.
Ah! this Life is so everyday Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38a
ÂŁ600 unsigned ÂŁ1,000 signed
Watch me eat, without appetite, Ă la carte Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38b
ÂŁ750 unsigned
She fled along the avenue Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38c
ÂŁ750 unsigned ÂŁ1,200 signed
Her handkerchief swept me along the Rhine Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38d
ÂŁ850 unsigned ÂŁ1,500 signed
I’ll take my life monotonous Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38e
£600 unsigned £1,000 signed
You’ll be sick if you spend all your time indoors Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38f
£850 unsigned £1,500 signed
Crying to the walls: My God! My God! will she relent? Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38g
ÂŁ850 unsigned
All these confessions… Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38h
£850 unsigned £1,500 signed
Making circles on park lagoons Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38i
ÂŁ600 unsigned
Oh! if one of Them, some fine evening, would try Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38j
ÂŁ750 unsigned
Thus she would come, escaped, half-dead to my door Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38k
ÂŁ750 unsigned
And, with my eyes bolting toward the Unconscious Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38l
ÂŁ600 unsigned
We wanted to bleed the Silence Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38m
ÂŁ750 unsigned
Along a twilighted sky Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38n
ÂŁ600 unsigned
Oh Helen, I roam my room Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38o
£850 unsigned £1,500 signed
I’ve only the friendship of hotel rooms Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38p
£850 unsigned £1,500 signed
She’ll have forgotten her scarf Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38q
£750 unsigned £1,200 signed
And I am alone in my house Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38r
ÂŁ750 unsigned ÂŁ1,200 signed
All the benches are wet, the woods are so rusty Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38s
ÂŁ750 unsigned ÂŁ1,200 signed
Ah! storm clouds rushed from the Channel coasts Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38t
ÂŁ750 unsigned ÂŁ1,200 signed
Curtains drawn back from balconies of shores Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38u
ÂŁ600 unsigned
My life inspires so many desires! Original screenprint | 355 x 405 mm Cristea 38v
ÂŁ750 unsigned ÂŁ1,200 signed
Some Poems of Jules Laforgue A book of 22 screenprints illustrating 12 of Jules Laforgue’s poems. Proofed by Advanced Graphics, London. Editioned by Frank Kircherer, Stuttgart. Published by Petersburg Press Ltd in association with Waddington Galleries, London. The book has been printed in three varying editions. Each book comprising 12 poems and 22 images is signed and numbered on the justification page. We have examples from the following: Edition A: The book in English accompanied by 6 signed, loose prints, each signed, numbered and titled on the reverse. Numbered from the edition of 200 (there are in addition 20 proofs). Edition B: The book with the original French text accompanied by 6 signed, loose prints, each signed, numbered and titled on the reverse. Numbered from the edition of 200 (there are in addition 20 proofs). All prices quoted include framing.