Shadow Head

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented. Willem de Kooning cited in: Exh. Cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, Jenny Saville, 2018, p. 8.\nThe heightened scale of many of [Savilles] paintings keeps them from becoming distant; they are not to be contemplated like a view out a window or a discrete rectangle on a flat wall. Their scale implies a larger and more three-dimensional space, one that is enfolding, and the physical touch of the brush and the presence of the flesh becomes so intens

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