Rose Wylie: Which One, 2

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

Voluntary worker, 2020

Colored pencil, biro and collage on paper

11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (29.7 x 21 cm)

Rose Wylie

Homage Genre, Retablos, 2020

Colored pencil, biro and collage on paper

11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (29.7 x 21 cm)

Rose Wylie, Homage Genre, Retablos, 2020 (detail)

Rose Wylie

Pig and Sausages, 2020

Colored pencil, biro and collage on paper

11 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (30.2 x 21.3 cm)

Rose Wylie

The Mexican Butcher (Mud), 2020

Colored pencil, biro and collage on paper

11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (29.7 x 21.1 cm)

Rose Wylie

Yellow Head II (ordinary person), 2020

Oil and collage on paper

52 7/8 x 35 1/4 inches (134.5 x 89.5 cm)
Framed: 55 5/8 x 41 1/8 inches (141.4 x 104.3 cm)

Rose Wylie

Yellow Head VI, Soldier Boy, 2020

Oil and collage on paper

46 7/8 x 33 1/8 inches (119 x 84.2 cm)
Framed: 52 7/8 x 39 1/8 inches (134.4 x 99.4 cm)

Rose Wylie

Yellow Head III, 2020

Oil on paper

49 3/8 x 34 1/8 inches (125.5) x 86.8 cm
Framed: 55 3/8 x 40 5/8 inches (140.8 x 103.3 cm)

“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

Rose Wylie

Little Blue Book, 2020

Spiral bound sketchbook, containing twelve (12) double spread and one (1) single spread biro, coloured pencil and collage on paper

5 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches (14 x 6.2 cm)

Rose Wylie

Black Cat (after a Thebes vase), 2020

Marker, colored pencil, pencil and collage on paper

10 3/4 x 12 inches (27.4 x 30.5 cm)
Framed: 16 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (42 x 44.5 cm)

“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

Biro and collage on paper

11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (29.7 x 21 cm)
Framed: 17 1/8 x 13 5/8 inches (43.5 x 34.5 cm)

Rose Wylie

Illuminated Manuscript, working drawing, 2020

Biro, colored pencil and collage on paper

11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (29.7 x 21 cm)
Framed: 17 1/8 x 13 5/8 inches (43.5 x 34.5 cm)

Rose Wylie's studio, 2021

Rose Wylie

Fluffy Head, 2020

Colored pencil, biro and collage on paper

12 x 9 3/4 inches (30.5 x 24.7 cm)

“This tool, to me, looks like Mary, Mother of God: black hair, long clothes.”

—Rose Wylie

Rose Wylie

Tool, 2020

Colored pencil, biro and collage on paper

11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (29.7 x 21 cm)
Framed: 17 1/8 x 13 5/8 inches (43.5 x 34.5 cm)

Rose Wylie

Smart Social Distancing (Birthday Pic), 2020

Oil, biro and collage on paper

36 1/8 x 36 1/2 inches (91.8 x 92.8 cm)
Framed: 42 1/4 x 42 5/8 inches (107.4 x 108.4 cm)

Pete, 2021

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