Explore the captivating journey of Jenny Saville 's life and art. Uncover the brilliance behind the renowned artist's masterpieces.
Explore the captivating journey of Jenny Saville 's life and art. Uncover the brilliance behind the renowned artist's masterpieces.
Jenny Saville is one of the artists I few up admiring at college. I found various articles of her working in her studio and a great quote about them from her: “My studio does affect my work…
Richard Calvocoressi discusses the inspiration behind the artist’s new body of work.
Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville at Davies Street, London. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.
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"the aim of every artist is to arrest motion…" -Faulkner
The elegance of Saville’s facture, the swirling and energetic pace of her drawing, made her inheritor of a tradition of gestural, bravura painting going back to Titian, Rubens, and Velázquez, and as reworked by John Everett Millais and Édouard Manet
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford is currently presenting the exhibition Titian to Canaletto: Drawing in Venice, this new show explores how …
Jenny Saville shares a selection of the books, films, and more that have been her companions in the quiet of the shutdowns in recent months and as she looks ahead to a new exhibition next year.
The elegance of Saville’s facture, the swirling and energetic pace of her drawing, made her inheritor of a tradition of gestural, bravura painting going back to Titian, Rubens, and Velázquez, and as reworked by John Everett Millais and Édouard Manet
A remarkable painting that propelled a young Jenny Saville into the spotlight will be offered at auction for the first time during Frieze Week, as part of the collection of visionary collector, patron and museum trustee, the late David Teiger.
“The Savilles are stunning… They are more than representations of the human form, they are somehow about the experience of being human”. ★★★★ The Scotsman The third instalment of NOW featured a major survey of works by renowned British artist Jenny Saville, spanning some 25 years of the artist’s career across five rooms. Bringing together 17 works from private and public collections across the globe, this was the first museum exhibition of Saville’s work ever to be held in Scotland, and only her third in the UK. The selection spans 26 years, from iconic early paintings such as Propped (1992) and Trace (1993-4), to recent charcoal and pastel drawings, demonstrating how Saville’s approach to depicting the human body has shifted over the course of her career. Other highlights included a series of large-scale head paintings, such as Rosetta II (2005-6), made while the artist was based in Italy. Image: Jenny Saville, Rosetta II, 2005-06 © Jenny Saville. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian.
“I paint flesh because I’m human. Flesh is just the most beautiful thing to paint.” Jenny Saville’s voluptuous, rippling folds of flesh explore the living, breathing human experience. On one hand she is a painter’s painter, who relishes in the messy, smeary liquidity of oil paint, but she also draws parallels between the sensuality of painting and...
Find our more about the exhibition Jenny Saville: Latent at rue de Castiglione, Paris. Installation views, works, editorial content, press, and more.
