Jenny Saville

Jennifer Anne Saville RA (born 7 May 1970) is a contemporary English painter and an original member of the Young British Artists. Saville works and lives in Oxford, England, and she is known for her large-scale painted depictions of nude women. She has been credited with originating a new and challenging method of painting the female nude and reinventing figure painting for contemporary art. Some paintings are of small dimensions, while other are of much larger scale.

Monumental subjects come from pathology textbooks that she has studied that informed her on injury to bruise, burns, and deformity. John Gray commented: "As I see it, Jenny Saville's work expresses a parallel project of reclaiming the body from personality." Saville worked with models who underwent cosmetic surgery to reshape portions of their body, these models aim to embody their personalities more fully, while Saville’s work has been read as directed against the fantasy that humans can be the complete authors of their lives.

She is one of two women to have made the top 10 auction lots sold in 2023, alongside Julie Mehretu.