I've only the friendship of Hotel rooms

Patrick Caulfield

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33x40cm (56x63cm framed)

Screenprint, 1973


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Partick Caulfield displayed twenty-two brightly coloured screenprints which were made from a book of poems by French poet, Jules Laforge, not illustrations to the text but complementary images, with the melancholy atmosphere of Caulfield's interiors finding a direct counterpart in Laforgues's poetry.

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You'll be sick if you spend all your time indoors
We wanted to watch the silence
She Fled along the avenue
And, with my eyes bolted toward the unconcious
My Life Inspires so many desires
Ah! this life is so everyday
Crying to the walls: My God! My God! will she relent
Along a twilighted sky
I'll Take my Life Monotonous
Oh Helen, I roam the room
All These Confessions
And I am Alone in the House
Ah! storms clouds rushed from the channel coasts
Her handkerchief swept me along the Rhine
Thus she would come, escaped, half-dead to my door
Watch me eat, without appetite, a la carte
Making circles on park lagoons
She'll have forgotten her scarf
All the benches are wet, the woods are so rusty
Curtains drawn back from balconies of shores
Oh, if one of them, some fine evening, would try