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Jenny Saville's work literally blows my mind. I think it's hugely important to have artists that inspire us to work harder, and to create your best painting.

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2022-04-02

Fatness & Feminism—Writer and artist discuss fat and feminism, as well as their shared commitment to nurturing a younger generation of women writers and artists. https://t.co/jbdkk59UGi

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2021-09-06

Jenny Saville Propped 1992 Significant Works – Sue Hubbard https://t.co/KZktTuuibg

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2020-12-02

Talking the mighty and a sprinkling of
this morning '24 modern and contemporary artists you should know'

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2020-11-30

channels the enigmatic softness and subtle perspectival trickery of cartoons in her charcoal drawings. View more in the catalogue, “Jenny Saville: Oxyrhynchus,” which is now available to read online: https://t.co/JKiZzMej7B

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2020-07-26

"Human perception of the body is so acute and knowledgeable that the smallest hint of a body can trigger recognition." Jenny Saville

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2020-07-18

This Artwork Changed My Life: “Strategy”—"The obese figure in this painting is undeniably beautiful. She is quite literally a work of art put on display so as to be praised and admired." https://t.co/7BHvQP7pOO

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2020-07-14

“I’m interested in the language of the in-betweenness of things, the mutation of the contradiction, the state of becoming visible.”
—#JennySaville

Happy birthday to Jenny Saville, who was born on this day, May 7, in Cambridge, England.

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2020-05-08

[Flesh] is all things. Ugly, beautiful, repulsive, compelling, anxious, neurotic, dead, alive.

- Jenny Saville

Propped 1992
Closed Contact 1995/96
Reverse 2002/03


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2019-10-30

Totally floored to open the latest copy of & see this self portrait featured right next to & in Ian McKay’s essay on women & self portraiture

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2019-06-25

ICYMI: Watch the full Un-Private Collection talk with artist and professor Jennifer Doyle here: https://t.co/9mJF9VZ00j

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2019-02-14

Read about how changed the way we view the female form in painting via
https://t.co/4LmdVu1mWF

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2018-10-21

not impressed with the art world as everyone keeps talking about that shredded .... A Landmark Achievement for a Painting by a Woman [#jennysaville], Upstaged by a Man https://t.co/f9Eaf8S6UU

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2018-10-19

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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2018-10-06

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

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2018-10-06