A major work by Jenny Saville (b.1970) is to be sold at Ramsay Cornish Auctioneers in Edinburgh on May 6.
Estimated at £150,000-200,000, Nude Study is similar in pose and execution to the artist’s later painting Branded, which sold for a premium-inclusive £1.49m at Christie’s in 2011. Saville was her own model in both, painting herself as a defiant fleshy woman, grasping her belly with one hand and glaring out of the canvas.