May 15, 2019

Visions of the Self:
Jenny Saville on Rembrandt

Jenny Saville reveals the process behind her new self-portrait, painted in response to Rembrandt’s masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles, for an exhibition at Gagosian London. She details the extensive influence Rembrandt has had on her painting practice.

Artwork: © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2019; © Georg Baselitz; © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019; © Glenn Brown; © Urs Fischer; © The Lucian Freud Archive/Bridgeman Images; © Ellen Gallagher; © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved. DACS 2019; © Howard Hodgkin Estate; © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS 2019; © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2019; Self Portrait, 1988 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission; © Giuseppe Penone; © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2019; © Richard Prince; © Nathaniel Mary Quinn; © Charles Ray, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery; © Gerhard Richter 2019 (040019); © Jenny Saville; © Cindy Sherman, courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York; © Rudolf Stingel; © Christopher Wool; video: Emma Charles, Miriam Perez, and PerryDuke; Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now, in partnership with English Heritage, Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, April 12–May 18, 2019

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Gagosian Quarterly Fall 2025

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Fall 2025

The Fall 2025 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Andy Warhol’s Blue Liz as Cleopatra (1962) on the cover.

Glenn Brown: Time Machine

Glenn Brown: Time Machine

Join Glenn Brown in his London studio as he discusses his presentation for the Studio section of Frieze Masters 2025, which explores the idea of the artist’s studio as a time machine: a space in which historical memory fuels creativity, manifesting in artworks that look to the future. Brown speaks about the featured works, which range from new paintings, drawings, and a sculpture to historic works on paper from the Brown Collection.

Nathaniel Mary Quinn: What You See Is Grace

Nathaniel Mary Quinn: What You See Is Grace

On the eve of ECHOES FROM COPELAND, an exhibition of new paintings at Gagosian, New York, Nathaniel Mary Quinn met with Ashley Stewart Rödder to discuss the genesis of the works he’s been creating, their literary origins, and his evolving approach to the practices—and intersections—of painting and drawing.

Jenny Saville and Douglas Stuart

In Conversation
Jenny Saville and Douglas Stuart

Ahead of her exhibition over the summer at the National Portrait Gallery, London, Jenny Saville met with the novelist Douglas Stuart to discuss Glasgow, the beauty and blemishes of bodies, and their respective creative processes.

At the Movies with Andy Warhol

At the Movies with Andy Warhol

Carlos Valladares tracks the artist’s engagements with Hollywood glamour, thinking through the ways in which the star system and its marketing engine informed his work.

Rollin’ High and Mighty Traps: Richard Prince

Rollin’ High and Mighty Traps: Richard Prince

Sydney Stutterheim traces the linkages and affinities between the work of Richard Prince and that of Bob Dylan. Using Prince’s Untitled (Dylan) as a starting point, she considers the artist’s enduring interest in questions of originality and authorship, as well as his sustained relationship with the worlds of American music and counterculture.

Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2025

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2025

The Summer 2025 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Pablo Picasso’s Nu accoudé (1961) on the cover.

Picasso: Tête-à-tête

Picasso: Tête-à-tête

On April 18, the exhibition Picasso: Tête-à-tête opened at Gagosian, New York. Including works from 1896 to 1972, the full span of the artist’s career, the show is presented in partnership with Paloma Picasso, the artist’s daughter. Here, Michael Cary, one of the organizers of the exhibition, traces the historical precedents that informed the conversational nature of the curation. He also introduces a translation of a 1932 interview with Picasso by the publisher and critic E. Tériade, often quoted in English in part but not in full.

The World as Playground

The World as Playground

Bartolomeo Sala considers the brief yet revolutionary dreams of Arte Povera. On the occasion of a retrospective at the Bourse de Commerce, Paris, he explores the historical conditions that gave rise to the radical midcentury movement and the warnings we might glean today from its legacy.

Cy Twombly by Jenny Saville: To Lift the Veil

Cy Twombly by Jenny Saville: To Lift the Veil

Jenny Saville reflects on Cy Twombly’s poetic engagement with the world, with time and tension, and with growth in this excerpt from her Marion Barthelme Lecture, presented at the Menil Collection, Houston, in 2024.

Rudolf Stingel: A Trace

Rudolf Stingel: A Trace

Jessica Beck surveys the career of Rudolf Stingel, noting his sustained engagements with painting, environment, and memory.

Jazz & Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jazz & Jean-Michel Basquiat

Gagosian director Jessica Beck speaks with Lee Mergner, author and publisher of JazzTimes, about Basquiat’s lifelong engagement with jazz on the occasion of “Bebop Revolution: JLCO with Wynton Marsalis,” two nights celebrating bebop and the genre’s influence on the painter at Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York.