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Marlene Dumas: First Contemporary Woman Artist Acquired for Louvre Permanent Collection

Marlene Dumas: First Contemporary Woman Artist Acquired for Louvre Permanent Collection

by News Desk | Nov 10, 2025 | News

It’s the kind of milestone that feels both overdue and oddly inevitable. The Louvre — that great cathedral of art history, where centuries of male genius stare solemnly down from gilded frames — has made way for Marlene Dumas. The Dutch–South African painter, now 71,...
Marlene Dumas Sets New Auction Record for Living Female Artist at Christie’s

Marlene Dumas Sets New Auction Record for Living Female Artist at Christie’s

by News Desk | May 15, 2025 | News

New York – In a landmark result for Christie’s, the South African artist Marlene Dumas has claimed the auction record for a living female artist. Her 1997 painting, Miss January, achieved $13.6m with fees at Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale. The...
Marlene Dumas: Oscar Wilde and Bosie – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard

Marlene Dumas: Oscar Wilde and Bosie – Significant Works – Sue Hubbard

by News Desk | Dec 18, 2021 | Features

Plus ca change, plus c’est le meme chose, the homily goes. Yet, Marlene Dumas’ portraits of the writer Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) and his young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), known as ‘Bosie’, illustrate that social attitudes do change that...
Marlene Dumas Exhibits Oscar Wilde And Lover Bosie Portraits At NPG

Marlene Dumas Exhibits Oscar Wilde And Lover Bosie Portraits At NPG

by News Desk | Apr 4, 2017 | Previews

Contemporary artist Marlene Dumas (b.1953) displays portraits of Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (1870–1945), also known as ‘Bosie,’ painted last year and exhibited in Artangel’s ambitious exhibition at Reading Gaol, Wilde’s place of...

Marlene Dumas To Replace Osmar Schindler Work With Dresden Altarpiece

by News Desk | Jun 18, 2015 | News

South African born artist and painter Marlene Dumas has been commissioned to paint an altarpiece for an 18th-century church in Dresden. The new altarpiece, which is due to be completed by the end of 2016, will replace a fresco of the Conversion of St Paul that was...
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