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Jenny Saville

English figurative painter and original YBA member.

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Born on 7 May 1970, Jennifer Anne Saville is a painter from England who was part of the Young British Artists (YBAs) from its beginning.[1] Her home and studio are in Oxford, England; she is famous for creating oversized paintings of nude women who do not fit conventional ideals.[1] Following the 2018 auction of her piece Propped (1992) at Sotheby’s for £9.5 million, she became known as the "Most Expensive Living Female Artist".[2]

Life and work

Saville was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, and attended the Lilley and Stone School in Newark, Nottinghamshire.[3] In 1994, Saville observed plastic surgery operations in New York City.[4] Saville obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Glasgow School of Art between 1988 and 1992, and during that period she studied for one term at the University of Cincinnati in 1991.[5][6] While studying in Cincinnati, she took a women's studies class and attributes part of her fascination with large bodies to the art of Pablo Picasso.[6]

From 1996 through 2002, Saville worked together with photographer Glen Luchford on Closed Contact, which is a set of big photographic prints.[7] She has explained that drawing through earlier body shapes gives the artwork a life force or Eros.[8]

What the cited sources add

The Gagosian Gallery account notes that Saville pushes, smears, and scrapes pigment over her large-scale canvases.[5] The Saatchi Gallery profile describes her paintings as wallowing in the glory of expansiveness.[9] The Art Story source states that Saville is often credited with reinventing figure painting for contemporary art.[10] The same source notes that she borrows conventions from Leonardo da Vinci, Peter Paul Rubens, and Willem de Kooning.[10]

The Gagosian account for Closed Contact states the collaboration confronts and challenges conceived notions of feminine beauty.[11] The Gagosian account mentions that Saville observed a New York City plastic surgeon while on a fellowship in Connecticut in 1994.[12] According to the Saatchi Gallery profile, Saville said she was looking for a body that existed between genders when working with the transvestite.[13]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Jenny Saville" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Grant, "Jenny Saville", 2017; Royal Academy of Arts: Jenny Saville RA | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts , accessdate: 29 August 2014; "When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville"; "Jenny Saville", Gagosian Gallery (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Jenny Saville" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Freeman, "Jenny Saville Is Now the World's Most Expensive Living Female Artist", Artsy, 6 October 2018 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Jenny Saville" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Royal Academy of Arts: Jenny Saville RA | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts , accessdate: 29 August 2014 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Jenny Saville" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Jenny Saville Biography, Works of Art, Auction Results – Invaluable", Invaluable.com; Schama, Simon. "Jenny Saville". The Saatchi Gallery, 2005. Retrieved on 6 February 2008. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. "Jenny Saville", Gagosian Gallery. facts only, no text reused. gagosian.com
  6. Wikipedia, "Jenny Saville" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Jenny Saville", Gagosian Gallery; Calvocoressi, "Jenny Saville", Rizzoli International Publications, 2018; "Jenny Saville Biography ". Artbank.com. Retrieved on 5 February 2008. (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Jenny Saville" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Jenny Saville & Glen Luchford: Closed Contact, Beverly Hills, January 12–February 9, 2002", Gagosian, 2019-08-01 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Jenny Saville" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Calvocoressi, "Jenny Saville", Rizzoli International Publications, 2018 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  9. "Jenny Saville – Artist's Profile", The Saatchi Gallery. facts only, no text reused. saatchigallery.com
  10. "Jenny Saville Paintings, Bio, Ideas", The Art Story. facts only, no text reused. theartstory.org
  11. "Jenny Saville & Glen Luchford: Closed Contact, Beverly Hills, January 12–February 9, 2002", Gagosian, 2019-08-01. facts only, no text reused. gagosian.com
  12. "Jenny Saville", Gagosian, 2018-04-12. facts only, no text reused. gagosian.com
  13. Wikipedia, "Jenny Saville" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Jenny Saville – Artist's Profile", The Saatchi Gallery (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Jenny Saville (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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