Jenny Saville: Oxyrhynchus

This book was published on the occasion of Jenny Saville: Oxyrhynchus at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, the first-ever solo exhibition of Saville’s paintings in London.

The publication features more than a dozen works from 2006 to 2014 in which the artist references the layers upon layers of discoveries at Oxyrhynchus, a city in upper Egypt that was established in 332 BCE and is considered one of the world’s most important archaeological sites.  In this body of work, the final effect being a mysterious narrative of layered bodies and images. The dozen new works presented are a combination of oil, charcoal, and pastel on canvas and a combination of landscape and figures weaving throughout each other.

John Elderfield, a consultant at Gagosian Gallery, is Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, where he directed numerous celebrated exhibitions, among them Kurt Schwitters, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, and De Kooning: A Retrospective. In 2005, Time magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People of the Year; and in 2006 he was made Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

• Dimensions: 13 x 0.82 x 11.63 inches
• 100 pages