Marlene Dumas

(South African, born 1953)

Marlene Dumas is a contemporary South African painter, whose figurative works have earned her a place among the most influential painters of the 20th and 21st centuries. With an oeuvre of haunting portraiture that depicts the artist’s friends, models, and prominent political figures, Dumas consistently explores themes of sexuality, political oppression, identity, and feminism. Her work is informed by her childhood experience growing up in Apartheid, and addresses social struggles of oppressed peoples around the world. Working with gestural brush strokes and thin washes of paint, her works have a distinctly transparent appearance that emphasizes their materiality and intimate subject matter. As an artist deeply concerned with the medium of painting, she once remarked that ”no painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of—the pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.” Notable figures Dumas has depicted in her work include Alan Turing, Michelle Obama, Naomi Campbell, Amy Winehouse, and Princess Diana. Born on August 3, 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa, she has been the subject of several major solo exhibitions, notably including representing the Netherlands in the 1995 Venice Biennale and a 2015 retrospective at the The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Marlene Dumas News

At the Neuendorf Residency in Mallorca, William Monk Embraces the Slowness of Painting

At the Neuendorf Residency in Mallorca, William Monk Embraces the Slowness of Painting

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Canadian Collector Bruce Bailey Brings a Poignant Message to the Venice Biennale

Canadian Collector Bruce Bailey Brings a Poignant Message to the Venice Biennale

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Collector Kim Manocherian Has Assembled the Largest Trove of Work by Paula Rego in the World

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Marlene Dumas (1,166 results)
Dorothy D-lite, 1999

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Dorothy D-lite, 1999

Sale Date: November 23, 2022

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Purple Pose, 1999

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Purple Pose, 1999

Sale Date: November 23, 2022

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Snowflake, 1999

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Snowflake, 1999

Sale Date: November 23, 2022

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2 borsjes, 1983

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2 borsjes, 1983

Sale Date: November 28, 2022

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Little Red Riding Hood, 1989

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Little Red Riding Hood, 1989

Sale Date: November 16, 2022

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Snow White in the Wrong Story, 1988

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Snow White in the Wrong Story, 1988

Sale Date: November 15, 2022

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The Supermodel, 1995

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The Supermodel, 1995

Sale Date: October 28, 2022

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Sweets for my Sweet, 1998

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Sweets for my Sweet, 1998

Sale Date: October 15, 2022

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Fog of War, 2006

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Fog of War, 2006

Sale Date: September 14, 2022

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Art is/Always/Having to Say/Goodbye (for..., 2017

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Art is/Always/Having to Say/Goodbye (for..., 2017

Sale Date: September 1, 2022

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Imitating the Fathers., 1989

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Imitating the Fathers., 1989

Sale Date: June 2, 2022

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Pale Face, 1994

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Pale Face, 1994

Sale Date: June 8, 2022

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A Fragile Male Object, 1984

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A Fragile Male Object, 1984

Sale Date: June 20, 2022

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Lovesick artist, 1989

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Lovesick artist, 1989

Sale Date: June 3, 2022

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Snowflake, 1999

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Snowflake, 1999

Sale Date: April 26, 2022

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Supermodel, 1995

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Supermodel, 1995

Sale Date: April 21, 2022

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Set of 3 lithographs, 1984–1989

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Set of 3 lithographs, 1984–1989

Sale Date: April 1, 2022

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Kindvrou, 1974–1975

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Kindvrou, 1974–1975

Sale Date: March 16, 2022

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Doorn rosie, 1989

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Doorn rosie, 1989

Sale Date: February 21, 2022

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Amy - Back To, 2015

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Amy - Back To, 2015

Sale Date: January 26, 2022

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Art is/Always/Having to say/Goodbye, 2017, 2017

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Art is/Always/Having to say/Goodbye, 2017, 2017

Sale Date: December 18, 2021

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Peeping

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Peeping "Tom, 1990

Sale Date: December 15, 2021

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Leeftijd onbepaald (Age Indefinite), 2003

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Leeftijd onbepaald (Age Indefinite), 2003

Sale Date: December 13, 2021

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Schets voor een monument voor de vrede..., 1993

Marlene Dumas

Schets voor een monument voor de vrede..., 1993

Sale Date: December 13, 2021

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