Rose Wylie – Portrait 18, 2017 – Lithograph

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Portrait 18 by Rose Wylie is a limited edition lithograph from 2017, showcasing the artist’s distinctive, playful style. The black ink portrait features a stylized profile of a figure, rendered with expressive, sketch-like lines and exaggerated facial features. Wylie’s approach simplifies the human form to essential shapes and textures, infusing the piece with both charm and spontaneity. The rough, almost childlike quality of the lines and the character’s abstracted expression evoke a sense of humor and individuality, highlighting Wylie’s unique perspective in contemporary portraiture.

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 18, 2017

Name: Portrait 18, 2017
Brand: Rose Wylie
SKU: 9498
Price: 1400.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Form

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

LithographLithography 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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Rose Wylie

Portrait 18, 2017

61 x 38.1 cm

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