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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Martin Robinson

Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery: 'mythic art of the flesh'

Drift, 2020-2022 by Jenny Saville - (Private Collection courtesy Gagosian © Jenny Savile, Courtesy Gagosian)

The ancient and the modern, hyper-realism and total abstraction, pleasure and pain, glory and horror, it’s all here at the greatest new art show in town, ladies and gents, where the paintings don’t just reach out to leave their mark on you, they seem to take something back for themselves too.

Jenny Saville, YBA! Britpop art superstar back to ride the 90s fashionista rebirth just in time for the Oasis reunion, mine’s a Hooch and see you down the Groucho with Alex and Damien and Keith.

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