Title: Jenny Saville: Pietà I, 2021
Artist: Jenny Saville
Year: 2021
Medium Type: Poster on paper
Frame: Unframed

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Jenny Saville
British, b. 1970

Jenny Saville’s monumental self-portraits and paintings of fleshy women embrace the grotesque and counter the male gaze that has dominated centuries of art history. The artist takes inspiration from the classical portraiture of Peter Paul Rubens, the fractured perspectives of Cubism, and the gestural materiality of Abstract Expressionism. Saville studied at the Glasgow School of Art in the late 1980s and early ’90s before becoming associated with the loose generational cohort known as the Young British Artists (YBAs). She showed in the Royal Academy of Arts’s famed “Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection” exhibition in 1997 alongside fellow iconoclasts Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, and Sarah Lucas. Saville has exhibited in New York, Paris, London, Copenhagen, and many other cities. Her work belongs to The Broad, the George Economou Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Norton Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among other institutions. In 2018, Saville’s Propped (1992) sold for $12.4 million and set a record for the most expensive work by a living female artist to sell at auction.

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