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Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting

Jenny Saville’s “The Anatomy of Painting”, National Portrait Museum, London (20 June – 7 September 2025) is the largest major museum exhibition of her work to date

The picture above, shows the scale of Saville’s work with the viewer dwarfed by the giant canvas. The painting itself, 1999, “Hyphen” is a self-portrait with her sister; real women’s bodies, seen by real women depicted in thick sculptural paint. Whilst influenced by feminist art, she claims her work is primarily about human bodies. Hence the title of the show

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“Female British Artist”

On the 15th April of this year Sotheby’s New York sold Leonora Carrington’s 1945 “Les Distractions de Dagobert” for $28.5m setting a new record for a female British artist. However, if we remove the words “female” and “British”, she doesn’t make Wikipedia’s list of the top 89 most expensive paintings. In fact, no women artists do

1945 Les Distractions de Dagobert - Gender inequality in women artists

Historical discrimination against women artists is an uncomfortable truth. We acknowledge past injustices, think things are better now, yet know there is more to do. However, the above news struck me as positive, and prompted me to investigate further

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