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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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A self-portrait by British artist Jenny Saville, Propped, fetched £9.5 million (US$12.4 million) during the Sotheby's contemporary sale in London last week, marking a new auction record for the.


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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.


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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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Saville's 'Propped' makes history, speaks to body image. Jenny Saville's larger-than-life self-portrait, "Propped," sold at Sotheby's in London in October for a record-breaking $12.4 million, the highest price ever paid for a piece by a female artist. Courtesy of dou_ble_you via Flickr. British painter Jenny Saville has long.


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Jenny Saville's Propped (1992) hammered at £8.25 million. It was won by the bidder on the phone with Sotheby's head of Impressionist and Modern Art Helena Newman after a protracted bidding war with North and South America chairman Lisa Dennison. The result more than doubled the painting's high estimate of £4 million ($5.2 million).


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


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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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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.


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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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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 was born on May 7, 1970, in Cambridge. Her parents, both educators, moved Jenny and her brothers and sister frequently from school to school as her father pursued a career as a school administrator. After attending several schools, she finished secondary school at Newark, Nottinghamshire. As a child, Saville's parents encouraged.


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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.


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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.


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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


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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.