Jenny Saville (b. 1970)
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Jenny Saville (b. 1970)

Umbilical

Details
Jenny Saville (b. 1970)
Umbilical
signed and dated 'Saville 2011' (lower right)
charcoal on paper
51¾ x 77 7/8in. (131.5 x 198cm.)
Executed in 2011
Provenance
Donated by the artist.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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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.'
(The artist quoted in D. Sylvester, 'Areas of Flesh' in The Independent, 30 January 1994, reproduced in Gagosian Gallery (ed.), Jenny Saville, New York 2005, p. 15).

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