Wylie, Rose | Portrait 20, 2017 — available on Composition Gallery

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// Portrait 20 by Rose Wylie is a limited edition lithograph that reflects her signature, whimsical approach to portraiture. Created in 2017, this artwork features a stylized face with exaggerated features rendered in bold, gestural black lines on a stark white background. The expression, with a dark mouth shape and simplified eyes, captures an emotive yet playful look, as if the figure is caught mid-sentence or exclamation. Wylie’s minimalistic lines evoke a sense of childlike spontaneity, challenging traditional portraiture by focusing on pure form and expression rather than realistic detail.

Rose Wylie (UK, 1934) is a celebrated British painter known for her bold, large-scale canvases that feature playful, cartoon-like imagery. Her work often draws inspiration from pop culture, daily life, and art history, with a distinctive, childlike aesthetic that challenges traditional notions of composition and technique. Wylie’s unique style has gained her acclaim in contemporary art circles worldwide.

Rose Wylie

Portrait 20, 2017

Name: Portrait 20, 2017
SKU: 9496
Price: 1400.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

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Limited Edition Print

Limited Edition PrintA limited edition print is one of a number of prints made at the same time from one printmaking plate. A fixed number are made and signed by the artist, indicating the printing order, using the format 1/10, meaning first of ten prints.

Medium

Lithograph

Lithograph Lithography is a printing method based on the principle that water and oil do not mix. It can be used to print artwork or text onto paper or other suitable materials. Traditionally, an image was drawn with wax, fat, or oil onto a lithographic limestone surface or plate. Today, metal plates and other surfaces are also used in lithographic printing.

Edition

Edition of 20

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Imperfections give energy to a painting—it shouldn’t be too tidy.
- Rose Wylie

Renowned for her vibrant, often child-like imagery, Rose Wylie is a painter whose works are often large-scale and created on unstretched, unprimed canvas; depicting various subjects ranging from cultural iconography to hybrid forms, Wylie has acknowledged that the primitive nature of her art can be difficult for some people to comprehend ‘but then they find that actually there’s stuff in it relating to Dürer and Cézanne’. Among the works that best capture her signature style are Queen of Sheba with Gold Lump and Black Stork, both of which also feature her trademark illegible scrawling, further emphasising the absurdity and wry humour of the final image presented.

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What is figurative art?

Sometimes known as Figurativism, figurative art refers to sculptures and paintings that are clearly or specifically derived from real objects, making them representational. The term figurative art is often used in contrast to abstract art. However, since the emergence of abstract art, figurative art has come to describe any form of modern art that has strong references to the real world or actual situations.

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Rose Wylie

Portrait 20, 2017

61 x 40.6 cm

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