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The very first image Tumblr banned from my blog was the nude self-portrait “Propped,” by Jenny Saville, a groundbreaking work of contemporary art.
Jenny Saville’s “Propped,” first shown in 1992, set an auction high for a living female artist when it sold for 9.5 million pounds, or about $12.4 million, at Sotheby’s “Frieze Week” evening sale of contemporary art.
She should have been the center of attention, but somehow everyone got distracted.
The nude self-portrait “Propped,” by Jenny Saville, was bought by a telephone bidder at Sotheby’s on Friday night for 9.5 million pounds, or about $12.4 million. That should have made plenty of headlines: The price paid for the work, part of the “Sensation” show of Young British Artists that caused such a stir in London and New York in the late ’90s, was a new auction high for a living female artist.
The result, more than three times the low estimate, was acclaimed in the salesroom with a huge round of applause. But before anyone had time to reflect on its significance, Banksy’s $1.4 million “self-destructing” painting intervened, and the world was talking about a sensational stunt, rather than the way that female artists, and artists from other long-disempowered sectors of society, were reconfiguring the art world.
read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/arts/-jenny-saville-banksy-sothebys.html
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