Flora Yukhnovich

UK

Oil on linen

Flora Yukhnovich (b. 1990, UK) is one of the most closely watched painters of her generation. Her large-scale canvases reimagine Rococo painting — Fragonard, Boucher, Tiepolo — through a contemporary lens of pleasure, excess, and painterly freedom. Works have entered major institutional and private collections across Europe and the USA since her breakthrough in 2021. Represented by Victoria Miro. Auction records consistently above estimate.

Yukhnovich returns to a moment in art history when painting was unapologetically about delight. She takes the Rococo's soft pinks, dissolving forms, and atmosphere of pleasure — and pushes them further, into something more unstable, more physical, more contemporary. The paintings ask whether beauty is still possible as a serious subject.