- Artist
- Patrick Caulfield 1936–2005
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 2134 × 1524 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Mrs H.K. Morton through the Contemporary Art Society 1969
- Reference
- T01134
Catalogue entry
Patrick Caulfield b. 1936
T01134 POTTERY 1969
Inscribed ‘POTTERY PATRICK CAULFIELD 3.1969’ on canvas turnover, and similarly on stretcher.
Canvas, 84×60 (213.5×152.5).
Purchased out of funds bequeathed by Mrs H K Morton through the Contemporary Art Society 1969.
Exh: Pop Art, Hayward Gallery, July–September 1969 (165).
The artist wrote (18 June 1970): ' “Pottery” was an excuse for me to use a lot of colour. It is not a subject that I have experienced or seen in someone's work (I have never seen [William Nicholson's] “The Hundred Jugs”), it is simply an extravagant elaboration of the pottery still lifes that I had done previously. It should be hung so that the pots described as at eye level are at eye level...
‘Apart from a few tracings there are no drawings for it.’
Asked in what way he considered that T01134 differed from the paintings, of somewhat contrasting appearance, which almost immediately followed it, the artist added: ‘The paintings in my last show (Waddington Galleries, October 1969) were much more to do with experiences. The elaboration in them was contradicted by the simplicity of the colours. In this respect I think “Inside a Swiss Chalet” was the most successful’.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1968-70, London 1970