Jenny Saville Elpis, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, November 12December 22, 2020 Gagosian


Jenny Saville Elpis, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, November 12December 22, 2020 Gagosian

Jenny Saville's superlative self-portrait 'Propped' is one of the most important paintings by a British artist of the last thirty years. Shattering tradition.


Jenny Saville Elpis, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, November 12December 22, 2020 Gagosian

British contemporary painter Jenny Saville is one of them. Propped (Fig.1), one of Jenny Saville's most iconic works was created in 1992 as an oil on canvas measuring 213.4 x 182.9 cm. Standing in front of this large self-portrait, one can often clearly see the various flaws and imperfections in the body of


Jenny Saville Elpis, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, November 12December 22, 2020 Gagosian

Later, in 2018 Saville's Propped (1992) sold at Sothebys' in London for £9.5 million, above its £3-£4 million estimate, becoming the most expensive work by a living female artist sold at auction. Torso (2004-2005), oil on canvas Representations of the body. Representations of the body is an important aspect of Jenny Saville's work.


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Jenny Saville made "Propped" in 1992 as a self portrait. It was initially made to be part of Saville's degree exhibition at the Glasgow School of Art in Edinburgh, where it was subsequently acquired by the collector Charles Saatchi. The piece was also featured on the cover of the Times Saturday Review. Sotheby's auction house called the.


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When Propped was first displayed at Jenny Saville's degree show in Edinburgh in May 1992, a mirror was hung opposite the work, at a distance equal to the height of the painting. Although the work would later cease to be displayed in this fashion, with the artist's blessing, an interrogation of the precise reasoning for this decision.


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Jenny Saville RA (born 7 May 1970) is a contemporary British painter associated with the Young British Artists. She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of nude women. Saville works and lives in Oxford, England. Saville was born on 7 May 1970 in Cambridge, England. Saville went to the Lilley and Stone School (now The Grove School.


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The nude self-portrait "Propped," by Jenny Saville, was bought by a telephone bidder at Sotheby's on Friday night for 9.5 million pounds, or about $12.4 million.


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Friday, November 18, 2022, 6:30pm Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. Join Gagosian for a conversation between Jenny Saville and art critic and author Martin Gayford in conjunction with the exhibition Friends and Relations: Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews opening at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, on November 17. Taking Saville's momentous encounter with Francis.


Jenny Saville Elpis, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, November 12December 22, 2020 Gagosian

Jenny Saville's superlative self-portrait 'Propped' is one of the most important paintings by a British artist of the last thirty years. Shattering traditional representations of female beauty, it propelled a young Saville to global renown. The remarkable painting will offered at auction for the first time in our sale The History of Now: The Collection of David Teiger | Sold to Benefit.


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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.


Jenny Saville, Propped ToTuart Blog

Jenny Saville, Propped, 1992, oil on canvas, 84 × 72 inches (213.4 × 182.9 cm) Propped is also a massive statement of ambition, seeming to combine two quite contradictory and irreconcilable traditions. The presence of the script asserts the flatness of the picture plane, a key feature in the development of painting as described by Clement.


Jenny Saville Elpis, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, November 12December 22, 2020 Gagosian

Jenny Saville in front of her drawing "Pietà 1," in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, in Florence.. By 2018, when "Propped," a seething, distorted naked self-portrait,.


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View PROPPED by Jenny Saville on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Jenny Saville.


Jenny Saville Elpis, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, November 12December 22, 2020 Gagosian

Propped by Jenny Saville, 1992, via Sotheby's. Propped was described by Sotheby's as "the groundbreaking self-portrait that launched Jenny Saville's career". The painting was sold for $12.4 million at Sotheby's London in 2018, which broke the record of the highest amount ever paid at an auction for the work of a living female artist. The painting, showing a naked woman looking down.


Jenny Saville Continuum, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, September 15October 22, 2011 Gagosian

The auction debut of Saville's Propped follows the successful sale of the artist's monumental Shift in June 2016 (estimated at £1.5-2 million), which tripled the auction record for the artist when it sold for £6.8 million to The Long Museum, Shanghai.The primary subject of all of Saville's early works is the artist herself, and indeed throughout her oeuvre she has almost exclusively.


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Abstract. Like most of Jenny Saville's paintings, Propped (1992) lavishes the bulk of its attention on the subject of the female body and does so in ways that can be said to amount to a feminist.

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