--- product_id: 8634702 title: "Jenny Saville" brand: "gagosian gallery" price: "£67.16" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/8634702-jenny-saville store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Jenny Saville **Brand:** gagosian gallery **Price:** £67.16 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Jenny Saville by gagosian gallery - **How much does it cost?** £67.16 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/8634702-jenny-saville) ## Best For - gagosian gallery enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted gagosian gallery brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Jenny Saville - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41ODwhSTkYL.jpg) ![Jenny Saville - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/21zYItUtpRL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐ Very Dissappointed, bad design, poor image quality, lacking text. *by D***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2005* As an Artist (Painter) who buys many art books and counts Jenny Saville as one of his favorite younger painters, I have been eagerly awaiting this books release. I was also fortunate enough to get the Catalogue for Saville's Territories exhibition, and not I don't want to sell it. Considering the quality of the Territories and Migrants publications, my expectations for this book were admittedly high. I also saw both shows in person. As for this book, Disappointing is an understatement. Let's start with the obvious, it is incomplete and does not contain any of her earlier work and the text is nothing new, just a collection of older stuff. Then the reproduction quality is poor, the images are too small, the colors aren't accurate, they're overly contrasting. This leads me to believe that someone that never saw the actual works ran the images through some Photoshop printing filter and didn't actually compare the printed images to the paintings. In addition, the layout of the artwork in the book is just plain bad. Instead of centering the images on the page, they hug the center, which makes them awkward to look at. For a book publisher, this is unforgivable.The positive aspects of the book are: well, there's finally a book on Saville and the photos of her studies, references and studio a well done, in fact there could be more. They do provide detail shots of her painting, which is mandatory with her work considering the scale. However, the few positives can't make up for a very poor book overall on an important contemporary artist.One reviewer said, "Move over Lucian Freud", I think not. A comparison cannot be made until Saville is in her 80's, then we'll (well someone will) talk. While her earlier work is very impressive, I'm becoming concerned about where she is going paint wise. The earlier work has "character", the newer work and pieces from the Migrants exhibition seem slick, rushed and overly pretty. The new work also lacks the conceptual strength of the early work (her weak point anyway). It seems to me she's becoming a cliché of herself. The best comparison I can think of is the animation style of the early Simpsons or South Park compared to later years. The rough edges and distinctiveness have disappeared, replaces by standardization and predictability, never a good thing for an artist. I hope that this phase of Saville's career will pass quickly.Final Score 4 out of 10 ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jenny Saville-I'll take what I can get. *by R***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 11, 2005* "The greatest living realist painter" is how Robert Hughes described Lucian Freud. Move over Lucian. I for one am stunned at the virtuosity of Saville. I agree with the first reviewer that I would have loved to have a tomb about 300+ pages of just artwork. I guess we will just have to wait. But what we do have here is equally worth the price. I found the studio photos and reference photos very enlightening. You can see where her ideas have come from and literally see the photos she is working from. From an artists point of view, this is wonderful. The reproductions that are in the book are very good. I really, really wish we could have seen more of her drawings as I think these reveal the real strength of her work. I find the shock value of some of the subjects a little old, but have no problem because the pure application of paint and line is so very beautiful. Would we even be writing about Jenny Saville if whe was painting flowers or landscapes? Irregardless, she is who she is, and I love it. A must see is the painting of the cow carcass. Stroke for stroke, this is one of the best paintings every done. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautiful and Grotesque *by S***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 19, 2007* All other considerations aside, Jenny Saville can paint, and this book proves it, close up and pouring across the pages. Truly a "painter's painter," Saville uses heightened color discovered, apparently, through manipulating photographs in Photoshop, then painting the results. However she arrives at it, her paint is gorgeous, the colors luscious and compelling. Without a doubt Saville blows away the competition in contemporary figurative realism. For my money, Lucien Freud has nothing on this young female painter. On the other hand, anyone thinking of buying the book should realize that many of the figures are grotesque, raw, actually painful to look at. Art historian Linda Nochlin calls them "hugely disturbing," and I have to agree. It is, in fact, the virtuosity of the paint that delivers such a visceral gut punch when applied to the subject matter, which ranges from obesity plus plastic surgery to men with large [..] plus male genitalia, all displayed in gargantuan proportions right in your face.The articles accompanying this monograph are excellent as well -- and not nearly disturbing as the images. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/8634702-jenny-saville](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/8634702-jenny-saville) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-05-29*