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Marlene Dumas’s formative works combine hybrid investigations, at times abstract and at times post-conceptual, with collage and writing. Painting, less present during this period, would later become her preferred medium. She studied fine art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art from 1972 to 1975, then at the Ateliers ’63 in Haarlem from 1976 to 1978. In 1979–1980, she continued her studies at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Amsterdam.
Among the works from these years are those she made between 1977 and 1981 after Andersen’s The Little Mermaid. Snow White and the Broken Arm dates from 1988.
In 2022, the Palazzo Grassi in Venice devoted the solo exhibition Marlene Dumas: open-end to her. Her work is represented in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Fondation Beyeler, the Louvre, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and Tate.
This profile brings together identity references for Marlene Dumas and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Dobiaschofsky · Germann · Lempertz
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Indian ink
"The art lover".
Tusche
Catalogue period : 2023-05-12
Published result : 8000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 4800
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Ink on paper
What child?
Tusche auf Papier
Auction date : 2015-11-28
Published result : 11160 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 8000
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Gouache, Aquarell und Ölkreide auf Papier.
Date to be documented
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Aquarell und Mischtechnik auf Papier.
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Mischtechnik und Collage auf Papier,
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Watercolour
Deliverance, 1988
Aquarell.
Date to be documented
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Watercolour
In Search of Hidden Meanings, 1988
Aquarell.
Date to be documented
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Mixed media on paper
Lying Nude, 1989
Mischtechnik auf Papier.
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Tusche, Aquarell und Farbstift auf Papier.
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