UK artist Jenny Saville's painting “Propped” recently sold for a £9.5 million, making her the most expensive female living artist (an artwork by the current most expensive living male artist, Jeff Koons, sold for £44 million)

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A Landmark Achievement for a Painting by a Woman, Upstaged by a Man - Jenny Saville
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Mientras el mundo aplaudía a Banksy por autodestruir una de sus obras luego de ser comprada, la artista Jenny Saville vendía su autorretrato ‘PROPPED’ en esa misma galería por 12 millones de dólares, el precio más alto que se ha pagado por una pintura de una artista viva

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A new record for a living female artist was set at Sotheby’s contemporary art sale on Oct 5, when Jenny Saville’s 1992 work “Propped” sold for $12.4 million, quadrupling its estimate of $3.9-5.2 million. Click for more details on this!



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Jenny Saville shredding her work would have been more interesting...

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Jenny Saville Takes Title of Most Expensive Living Female Artist https://t.co/TjBbpg2WSl

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Last week, Jenny Saville’s 1992 painting “Propped” sold for a grand total of $12.4 million, propelling the English artist to become the most expensive living female artist - https://t.co/es7XWzAh40

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Just going to leave this here to remind people that something way more important than the Banksy/Sotheby’s PR stunt happened on Friday evening.

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In recognition of Jenny Saville’s auction record last night for a living female artist , we’d like to dedicate our social media pages over the next couple of days to works produced by female artist.

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British Jenny Saville painting sold for $12.4 M at Sotheby’s London.

This is a Record for living Woman Artist.

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Painting Sells for $12.4 M. at Sotheby’s London, Record for Living Female Artist: The work had been owned by the late arts patron David Teiger. Read More The post Painting Sells for $12.4 M. at Sotheby’s London, Record for… https://t.co/M28WEi1Ugm

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Congratulations to whose 1992 self-portrait “Propped” has just set an auction record for any artwork by a living female artist, making £9.5 million ($12.4 million) at in London tonight.
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Jenny Saville, "Propped," 1992 © Jenny Saville

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After a long bidding battle, ‘Propped’ smashes the auction record for any living female artist, rising to £9,537,250.

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Sotheby's to offer the painting that brought Jenny Saville to international acclaim https://t.co/06XRr4l0vy

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Just seen this moving new work by in the main displays of - traditional composition & meaning of the updated to reflect suffering & devastation of contemporary Part of

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Also at , fabulous exhibition of paintings & drawings by - 1st museum showing of her work, spanning 26 yrs, in Scotland - part of programme. On till 16 September

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“Ambitious. Arresting. Disturbing. Intriguing… Immense canvases offering unflinching visceral palpability of physicality & raw humanity".

Admission to NOW 3, featuring work by Jenny Saville, Robin Rhode and more, is free at 👉 https://t.co/qyqvIifiY5

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Detail from painting - beautiful and brave brushstrokes.

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On the occasion of her exhibition at , has produced a limited-edition print based on this large-scale drawing: https://t.co/aZ0C0xK1zu
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Image: Jenny Saville, "One out of two (symposium)," 2016 © Jenny Saville. Photo: Mike Bruce

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