Not on display
- Artist
- Patrick Caulfield 1936–2005
- Medium
- Acrylic paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 865 × 1173 × 55 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased with assistance from Tate Members 2010
- Reference
- T13038
Display caption
Caulfield’s last painting, finished two weeks before his death, depicts a series of interlocking domestic spaces devoid of people and natural light. The patterned curtain of the title, was adapted from the wallpaper in the room depicted in Georges Braque’s The Duet 1937. This curtain and a lamp provide
the painting’s focus as a place formed by artificial light. The painting plays with the casting of light and shade, notably in the doubled rendering of the lamp, asking which of these intersecting images is the lamp and which its shadow?
Gallery label, September 2016
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