Jenny Saville: Continuum Yoshitomo Nara intended to be exact copies

intended to be exact copies of photographs

From her Upper East Side upbringing to her life-altering first encounter with the work of Jackson Pollock to her efforts to chart her own course in a male-dominated art world

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Andy Warhol: Early Hand-Painted Works at Gagosian

The volume includes images of all the works in the exhibition accompanied by details and catalogue entries by Gillian Pistell

Don Quaintance contributes the essay “Displaying Duchamp in New York

Jenny Saville: Continuum Yoshitomo Nara intended to be exact copiesThis poster featuring Red Stare Head IV (200611) as produced in 2011, in conjunction with Jenny Saville: Continuum at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York. In her Stare paintings Saville renders the features of the face and the nuances of skin texture and color in strokes both bold and meticulous. Enlarging the facial features of her human subjects to a vast scale and portraying them in layer upon layer of paint, she imbues them with a sense of mass