Jenny Saville

1970 -

Jenny Saville

• Contemporary British painter associated with the Young British Artists.
• She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of nude women.
• awarded a six-month scholarship to the University of Cincinnatiwhere she states that she saw "Lots of big women. Big white flesh in shorts and T-shirts. It was good to see because they had the physicality that I was interested in"
• ...a physicality that she partially credits to Pablo Picasso, an artist that she sees as a painter that made subjects as if "they were solidly there...not fleeting.".

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Rosetta 2, 2005–06

Oil on watercolor paper, mounted on board

99 1/4 x 73 3/4 inches (252 x 187.5 cm)

Strategy (South Face/Front Face/North Face)

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1993/1994

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Oil on canvas (triptych)

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274 x 640 cm 108 x 252''