Buildings
Modernist estates were, we are told, ‘alien’, irruptions into our homely, traditional streets, illegible and totalitarian edifices, ‘eyesores’ that are best pulled down. Peter Wylie’s paintings show something very different. In his paintings of Erno Goldfinger’s Balfron Tower, the life going on inside the building is as obvious as the proud, stark exteriors. In these paintings, and so it’s implied, in the buildings too, everyday city life and a monumental modernism live together unassumingly.
Owen Hatherley
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| Le Corbusier Chandigarh four 105 x 70cm |
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| Le Corbusier Chandigarh three 41x51cm oil on canvas |
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| Le Corbusier Chandigarh two 51x41cm oil on canvas* |
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| Le Corbusier Chandigarh one 51x41cm oil on canvas |
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van der Meeren study 1 20x25cm oil on canvas |
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| Le Corbusier two (with Le Corbusier flaking paint from Cité de Refuge) 75x110cm |
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| Tayler and Green one (with Le Corbusier flaking paint from Cité de Refuge) 110 x 75cm |
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| Le Corbusier Briey one (with Le Corbusier flaking paint from Cité de Refuge) 122x102cm oil on canvas |
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La Cité Radieuse of Le Corbusier, Study 5 20x25cm oil on canvas |
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La Cité Radieuse of Le Corbusier, Study 4 20x25cm oil on canvas |
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La Cité Radieuse of Le Corbusier, Study 3 20x25cm oil on canvas |
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La Cité Radieuse of Le Corbusier, Study 2 20x25cm oil on canvas |
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La Cité Radieuse of Le Corbusier, Study 1 20x25cm oil on canvas* |
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Smithson & Smithson, Study 1 20x25cm oil on canvas |
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Lynn & Smith, Study 1 20x25cm oil on canvas* |
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Lynn & Smith, Study 2 20x25cm oil on canvas |
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| Smithson and Smithson Two (with Le Corbusier flaking paint from Cité de Refuge) 122x102cm oil on canvas |
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Chamberlin, Powel and Bonn - Study 2 18x12cm oil on canvas |
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Chamberlin, Powel and Bonn - Study 1 18x12cm oil on canvas* |
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Goldfinger, Study 2 18x12cm oil on canvas |
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Goldfinger, Study 1 18x12cm oil on canvas |
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Lubetkin, Drake and Lasdun - Study 2 18x12cm oil on canvas* |
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Lubetkin, Drake and Lasdun - Study 1 18x12cm oil on canvas |
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Lubetkin, Skinner and Bailey - Study 2 18x12cm oil on canvas* |
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Lubetkin, Skinner and Bailey - Study 1 18x12cm oil on canvas* |
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Lasdun study 2 18x12cm oil on canvas |
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Lasdun study 1 18x12cm oil on canvas |
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Goldfinger Seven (with Le Corbusier flaking paint from apartment studio) 143x167cm oil on canvas
Exhbited at the Threadneedle Prize 2011 |
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| Goldfinger Six (with Le Corbusier flaking paint from apartment studio) 115x140cm oil on canvas |
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| Goldfinger Five (with Le Corbusier flaking paint from apartment) 115x140cm oil on canvas |
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| Goldfinger Four (with Le Corbusier flaking paint from apartment studio) 140x115cm oil on canvas |
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| Goldfinger Three (with Le Corbusier flaking paint from villa) 127x72cm oil on canvas* |
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| Goldfinger Two (with Le Corbusier flaking paint from Villa La Roche) 102x51cm oil on canvas+ |
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| Goldfinger One 49x25cm oil on canvas |
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| Lasdun Two 125x70cm oil on canvas |
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| Lasdun One 102x51cm oil on canvas |
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| Smithson and Smithson One (with Le Corbusier flaking paint from villa) 90x126cm oil on canvas* |
| * in private collection |
| +currently on loan to National Trust |
Also by peter wylie:
Dockside Dandies
North Sea Studies
Road Series
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