Self Portrait with Shut Mouth

Name: Self Portrait with Shut Mouth
Brand: Rose Wylie
Price: 840.00 GBP
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£840.00

Rose Wylie - Limited Edition Self Portrait with Shut Mouth

Rose Wylie

Self Portrait with Shut Mouth, 2017

Single colour hand drawn lithograph on Somerset satin white 300gsm

Dimensions: 63 x 89cm

Edition of 30 + 3APs

PRICE £700 (excluding VAT)

On the occasion of her exhibition Quack Quack at the Serpentine North Gallery, Rose Wylie has created a second Limited Edition print.

Wylie makes paintings, drawings and prints of visually compelling images that she encounters on a day-to-day basis, finding inspiration in a variety of sources, from art history, cinema, comic books and the natural world to verbal anecdotes, news and celebrity stories. These might include a scene from Quentin Tarantino’s iconic Kill Bill films, a self-portrait of Wylie in her party clothes, or an olive oil label. Driven by a relentless curiosity and instilled with wit, her images propose new perspectives on the world and the plethora of images that make up our collective cultural memory.

This Limited Edition print is titled Self Portrait with Shut Mouth. Wylie often combines text within her work to anchor facts and memories and here, she has included her initials ‘RW’ to indicate the identity of the sitter. The closely cropped composition is informed, like many of Wylie’s paintings, by cinematography. This work sits in contrast to the image of the artist’s open mouth about to eat a chocolate biscuit in her iconic painting Choco Leibniz (2006).

Artist

Rose Wylie

Rose Wylie (b. 1934, UK) is a contemporary painter whose work only began to receive attention and critical acclaim late in her life. Wylie works on large-scale canvases using cartoonish, child-like imagery rendered in expressive marks, sometimes inspired by art history or pop culture such as movies and television. Wylie finds inspiration for her visually compelling paintings through her daily encounters and a variety of sources, from art history, cinema, comic books and the natural world to news, verbal anecdotes, celebrity stories and sport. These might include a scene from Quentin Tarantino’s iconic Kill Bill films, a self-portrait of Wylie eating a chocolate biscuit or a football match. Her vibrant, large-scale canvases filled the walls of the Serpentine North Gallery. Wylie often paints through the filter of memory and impression, using text to enhance facts and recollections and editing images by overlaying new pieces of canvas over images, like a collage. At times, the compositions of her paintings are informed by cinematic techniques, whether the multiple headshots of Sitting on a Bench with Border (Film Notes) 2008, based on Pedro Almodóvar’s 2006 film Volver, or Wylie’s two paintings from the 2005 film Syriana, which take in a panoramic and close-up shot of the same scene.

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