Witness

Artist Jenny Saville(English, born 1970)English, born 1970

CultureEnglish

Titles

Witness

Date2009

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 106 5/16 × 86 3/8 × 2 1/2 in. (270 × 219.4 × 6.4 cm)
Frame: 111 × 91 1/4 × 4 in. (281.9 × 231.8 × 10.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Martin Sosnoff

Object number2015.407

Not on view

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Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Object Type

PAINTING

Provenance[Gagosian Gallery, London]; purchased by Martin Sosnoff, New York, 2010; given to MFAH, 2015.

Exhibition History"Crash: Homage to JG Ballard," Gagosian Gallery, Brittania Street, London, February 11–April 1, 2010.

"Jenny Saville: Continuum," Gagosian Gallery, New York, September 15–October 22, 2011.

"Jenny Saville," Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; Modern Art Oxford, England, 2011–2012.

"NOW: Jenny Saville," Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, March 24–September 23, 2018.
Published References Crash, Homage to J. G. Ballard. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2010, p. 153, illustrated in color. David Barrett, “Crash,” Art Monthly 335 (April 2010). Kathy Noble, “Crash: Homage to JG Ballard,” Frieze 131 (May 2010): http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/crash_homage_to_jg_ballard/ Jenny Saville, Continuum. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2011, pp. 106, 107, 109 and 117, illustrated in color. Jenny Saville. West Palm Beach and Oxford: Norton Museum of Art and Modern Art Oxford, 2011-12, n.p., installation view. Askew, Lucy. Jenny Saville (Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Art, 2018), illustrated, n.p. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

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Signed and dated verso: 2009

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