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Jenny Saville (b. 1970)
Time II
signed and dated 'Saville 2010' (lower right)
charcoal on paper in artist's frame
image: 76 ¼ x 56 7/8in. (193.6 x 144.5cm.)
overall: 89 x 69½in. (226 x 176.5cm.)
Executed in 2010

Provenance

Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, Jenny Saville, 2011-2012. This exhibition later travelled to Oxford, Ashmolean Museum and Modern Art Oxford.

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Lot Essay

‘There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism...it’s part of your identity. Individual things are seeping out, leaking out. What comes out of [my works] is a fascination with the body. I think you have to sit back and think about the actual structure of the body underneath’ (J. Saville, quoted in D. Sylvester, ‘Areas of Flesh’ in The Independent, 30 January 1994).

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