Jenny Saville

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jenny Saville
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	May 7, 1970(1970-05-07)
Age	54
Birthplace	Cambridge
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Jenny Saville Biography

Jenny Saville is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on May 7, 1970 in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom.

Jenny Saville RA (born 7 May 1970) is a contemporary British painter and an original member of the Young British Artists. She is known for her large-scale painted depictions of nude women. Saville has been credited with originating a new and challenging method of painting the female nude and reinventing figure painting for contemporary art. Saville works and lives in Oxford, England.

Representations of the body is an important aspect of Jenny Saville’s work. Saville’s stylized nude portraits of voluminous female bodies have brought her international acclaim. She attributes most of her style and subjects to this theme of representations. Savilles’ work Propped (1992), which is the most expensive work sold at an auction house by a living female artist, has been described as “one of the undisputed masterpieces of the Young British Artists” by Sothebys’ European head of Contemporary Art, Alex Branczik. This piece is said to be so masterful because it is “the superlative self-portrait that shatters canonized representations of female beauty.”

Jenny Saville Net Worth

Jenny Saville is one of the richest Painter from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jenny Saville 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Saville was born on 7 May 1970 in Cambridge, England. Saville went to the Lilley and Stone School (now The Newark Academy) in Newark, Nottinghamshire, for her secondary education, later gaining her degree at Glasgow School of Art (1988–1992), and was then awarded a six-month scholarship to the University of Cincinnati where she enrolled in a course in women’s studies. Saville was exposed to gender political ideas and renowned feminist writers. Saville states that during her time in Cincinnati, 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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In 2004, Saville explored the idea of floating gender in her work Passage. Saville is quoted saying “With the transvestite I was searching for a body that was between genders. I had explored that idea a little in Matrix. The idea of floating gender that is not fixed. The transvestite I worked with has a natural penis and false silicone breasts. Thirty or forty years ago this body couldn’t have existed and I was looking for a kind of contemporary architecture of the body. I wanted to paint a visual passage through gender – a sort of gender landscape.”

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Jeremy Ranked on the list of most popular Painter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Jenny Saville celebrates birthday on May 7 of every year.

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