Marlene Dumas (B. 1953)
Provenance : Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam. Frith Street Gallery, London. Private Collection, New York.
Exhibited : London, Frith Street Gallery MD Light, 1999 (illustrated in the catalogue).
Literature : Figurationen/Figurations, exh. cat.; Rupertinum, Salzburg, Ursula Blickle Foundation, October-December 1999 (illustrated in colour).
Notes : "At art school in the 1970s, it was clear that no-one was inspired by the nude drawing classes any more. The women (of colour) who posed at the university had been there for many many years. Being a model had become their occupation. They had posed themselves into (still life-like) generalized objects, devoid of erotic (or any kind of) energy. The rare occasions that the male nude (white) was acquired, it led to giggles or indifference but not to concentration. Now it seems that it was not the nude I was looking for, nor the posing figure, but the erotic conditions of life that I was after. Two 'subjects' confronting each other." (Marlene Dumas in Marlene Dumas, Phaidon Press, London 1999, p. 122).VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium
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