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 ...

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 female artist.

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 ...

Dumas became the highest paid living female artist in 2005 when one of her paintings sold at auction for $3.4 million. She gets introspective about being blonde and painting another famous blonde ...

Robins claims that word of his liquidating a Dumas painting from his collection, ‘Reinhardt’s Daughter,’ landed him on the artist’s blacklist, preventing him from buying further works, and ...