Patrick CAULFIELD Menu for Cavendish Hotel  (1976)

A mechanically-made (possibly offset lithograph or Xerox) in colours on fine paper, printed to the sheet edges and mounted to backing board. Probably a proof before being made into a menu (according to Caulfield family/estate). Signed Patrick Caulfield in pencil on the backing board (not on the print), somewhat speculative, with no sales records, or records of other copies aside from the same print in the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Not in Cristea, Patrick Caulfield: The Complete Prints 1964-1999. Provenance: gifted by the artist to the previous owner. Image size: 297mm x 358mm, Backin board size: 407mm x 483mm.

The print in good condition, the backing board rather mottled and discoloured. Small but perfectly formed, a truly beautiful Patrick Caulfield still life depicting simplified, figurative objects in a restaurant interior, its complex bold intersecting lines, shapes and shadows reminiscent of Still Life Ingredients of the same year.