Published on The Arts Desk (https://theartsdesk.com)

Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume, Tate Britain

A late 20th-century great emerges into the light, overshadowing a YBA

by Marina Vaizey [1]Wednesday, 05 June 2013

Patrick Caulfield (1936-2005) is the greatest late 20th-century British painter the international art world has never heard of. This quietly magnificent exhibition of about 35 paintings, most of them very large, may at last bring about a satisfactory reversal of fortune. Although some of the paintings are 50 years old, they could have been painted tomorrow.

Click on the thumbnails to enlarge

[4]

Café Interior: Afternoon 1973. © The estate of Patrick Caulfield

[5]

Bishops 2004. © The estate of Patrick Caulfield

[6]

Blackbird 1998 Private collection © Gary Hume

[7]

Tony Blackburn, 1994. Private collection © Gary Hume

Related Articles

Explore topics

Share this article

Share [2]

Source URL (modified on 29/11/2016 - 10:23):https://theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/patrick-caulfieldgary-hume-tate-britain?page=0%2C1

Links
[1] https://theartsdesk.com/users/marina-vaizey [2] https://www.addtoany.com/share_save [3] https://theartsdesk.com/print/70041?page=0,0 [4] https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/ID_015rt copy.jpg [5] https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/ID_028rt copy.jpg [6] https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/blackbird.JPG [7] https://theartsdesk.com/sites/default/files/ID_023rt copy.jpg [8] https://theartsdesk.com/node/77589/view [9] https://theartsdesk.com/node/4543/view [10] https://theartsdesk.com/node/75942/view [11] https://theartsdesk.com/node/2210/view [12] https://theartsdesk.com/node/28861/view [13] https://theartsdesk.com/visual-arts [14] https://theartsdesk.com/topics/reviews [15] https://theartsdesk.com/topics/tate-britain [16] https://theartsdesk.com/topics/britart [17] https://theartsdesk.com/topics/pop-art