![A detail from a drawing by Rose Wylie, titled Pig and Sausages, dated 2020.](https://assets.davidzwirner.com/v7/_assets_/davidzwirner/common/1px.png)
Rose Wylie, Homage Genre, Retablos, 2020 (detail)
Rose Wylie, Homage Genre, Retablos, 2020 (detail)
Launched in tandem with the exhibition Rose Wylie: Which One at the 19th Street gallery in New York, this online-only presentation highlights a selection of the artist’s works on paper, an important aspect of Wylie’s practice from which her paintings emerge.
Rose Wylie, Homage Genre, Retablos, 2020 (detail)
Rose Wylie, Homage Genre, Retablos, 2020 (detail)
“Wylie [frequently] begins with drawing, working downstairs at the dining-room table, often late into the night, before moving upstairs to paint.… She often comes across an idea for a painting in this way, making sketches after watching films, or after seeing something in a newspaper or on the street, or from memory. It’s a method that relies on chance, on her receptivity to the world around her.”
—Harriet Baker, Apollo, 2020
“If you were at school, they would say these little pencils were not appropriate.… But it’s quite nice to use something inappropriate. It takes a long time. The color is soft, like an old print; it’s not Technicolor, it’s not Hollywood. It’s got some other quality which rather fits.”
—Rose Wylie
Rose Wylie, Illuminated Manuscript, Adam and Eve, study, 2020 (detail)
Rose Wylie, Illuminated Manuscript, Adam and Eve, study, 2020 (detail)
Rose Wylie's studio, 2021
Rose Wylie's studio, 2021
Rose Wylie's studio, 2021
Rose Wylie's studio, 2021
Rose Wylie's studio, 2021
Rose Wylie's studio, 2021
Rose Wylie's studio, 2021
Rose Wylie's studio, 2021
“This tool, to me, looks like Mary, Mother of God: black hair, long clothes.”
—Rose Wylie
Pete, 2021
Pete, 2021
Rose Wylie: Which One