A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist. “Miss January” is Dumas’ “magnum opus” and stands ...

A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist. “Miss January” is Dumas’ “magnum opus” and stands 9.25 feet ...

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living ...

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 ...

Marlene Dumas’s paintings seduce with their brushy surfaces and saturated colors—and then, as soon as they draw you in, they twist the knife. The South African-born, Amsterdam-based artist’s ...

About This Lot Marlene Dumas is a South African artist who works primarily within the realm of figuration. With an oeuvre of haunting portraiture that depicts the artist’s friends, models, and ...

‘Death is an evil. We have the gods' word for it; they too would die if death were a good thing.’ South African artist Marlene Dumas reads this poem attributed to the Ancient Greek poet Sappho, ...

Tracks annual change in Marlene Dumas’s median prices and estimates. This chart shows whether the artist’s prices are rising or falling, without the distortion caused by the sale of exceptionally high ...