patrick caulfield / some poems of jules laforgue (yellow clock) / 26/102

Some Poems of Jules Laforgue is a 1973 limited-edition artist's book and portfolio of 22 color screenprints created by Patrick Caulfield to accompany the poetry of 19th-century French Symbolist Jules Laforgue.
Commissioned by Petersburg Press in association with Waddington Galleries, London.
Caulfield had read Laforgue as an art student and chose him as the subject for the book project.

NOTE: In the late 1960s, when Patrick Caulfield was invited to make a set of screenprints for a limited edition book, he chose the subject matter of the poetry of Jules Laforgue. Caulfield had greatly admired the poetry of Laforgue since his days as a student at the Royal College of Art.
Laforgue was born in Montevideo in 1860, but in 1876 moved to Paris where he died in 1887. Laforgue's poetry, at the same time romantic and ironic, was an important influence on such later poets as T.S.Eliot.
Caulfield said: 'The images I produced are complementary images, not illustrations. Some of the connections are a bit tenuous, others are obvious. I tried to image what Laforgue might have been looking at when he thought of the poems, knowing, of course, that certain of the images are totally of another period to Laforgue's lifetime: poetic licence with poetic license.'

‘Crying to the walls: My God! My God! Will she relent?’ is taken from a series of twenty-two vibrant images by Patrick Caulfield called ‘Some Poems of Jules Laforgue’.

1972/3 – Unsigned as issued

dimensions: paper / Image size 350 x 400mm in excellent condition

a screenprint from an edition of 400, printed on Neobond synthetic paper

printed by Petersberg Press in association with the Waddington Galleries