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Artist
Jenny Saville
b. 1970, Cambridge, England · British · Based in Oxford, UK; Palermo, Italy
- Glasgow School of Art
- University of Cincinnati
- Monumental Flesh Painting
- Oil on Canvas
- Charcoal & Pastel
- Young British Artists
Jenny Saville became known in the 1990s for monumental paintings of bodies rendered with thick paint, compressed perspective and an unidealized attention to flesh. Her later work increasingly layers drawing and multiple figures while engaging art history and photography.
Painting; drawing
Gallery Representation
Major Works
- 1992Propped
- 1993Plan
- 1999Fulcrum
- 1992Branded
- 1995–96Closed Contact
- 1993–94Strategy (South Face/Front Face/North Face)
- 1999Matrix
- 2002–03Reverse
- 2011The Mothers
- 2018Ancestors
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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