Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville
RA
Born
Jennifer Anne Saville

7 May 1970 (1970-05-07) (age 54)
Cambridge, England
EducationUniversity of Cincinnati, Glasgow School of Art
Known forPainting
MovementYoung British Artists
Relatives

Jennifer Anne Saville RA (born 7 May 1970)[1] is a contemporary British painter and an original member of the Young British Artists.[2]

Saville works and lives in Oxford, England[3] and she is known for her large-scale painted depictions of nude women. Saville has been credited with originating a new and challenging method of painting the female nude and reinventing figure painting for contemporary art. Some paintings are of small dimensions, while other are of much larger scale.[4] Monumental subjects come from pathology textbooks that she has studied that informed her on injury to bruise, burns, and deformity.[5] John Gray commented: "As I see it, Jenny Saville's work expresses a parallel project of reclaiming the body from personality. Saville worked with many models who underwent cosmetic surgery to reshape a portion of their body. In doing that, she captures "marks of personality for the flesh" and together embraces how we can be the writers of our own lives."[6]

She is one of two women to have made the top 10 auction lots sold in 2023.[7]

  1. ^ Grant, Catherine M. (2017). Jenny Saville. doi:10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T096964. ISBN 978-1-884446-05-4. Retrieved 21 October 2022. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Royal Academy of Arts: Jenny Saville RA | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts, accessdate: 29 August 2014
  3. ^ "Jenny Saville". Gagosian Gallery. Archived from the original on 23 December 2012. Retrieved 15 December 2012.
  4. ^ Saville. New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications Inc. 2005. pp. 26–29. ISBN 978-0-8478-2757-2.
  5. ^ Saville. New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications Inc. 2005. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-8478-2757-2.
  6. ^ Saville. New York, NY: Rizzoli International Publications Inc. 2005. pp. 8–9. ISBN 978-0-8478-2757-2.
  7. ^ Network, Artnet Gallery (5 March 2024). "5 Quick Takeaways From the Artnet Intelligence Report". Artnet News. Retrieved 9 March 2024.