Patrick Caulfield and Gary Hume side by side at Tate

Sixties still life painter Caulfield is 'quietly magnificent' but can YBA Gary Hume measure up?

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(Image credit: Patrick Caulfield, Café Interior: Afternoon 1973, © The Estate of Patrick Caulfield. All rights reserved, DACS 2013)

What you need to knowA new survey exhibition of the work of British painter Patrick Caulfield has opened at Tate Britain. The show runs in parallel with an exhibition by British painter Gary Hume.

Caulfield, who died in 2005, is associated with pop art and photorealism, and is best known for his formal but colourful still lifes and domestic interiors from the 1960s onwards.

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