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Marlene Dumas (b. 1953)
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Marlene Dumas (b. 1953)

Heavy woman

Details
Marlene Dumas (b. 1953)
Heavy woman
signed, titled and dated 'Heavy woman mDumas 1997' (lower right)
watercolour, gold paint and glitters on paper
124 x 69.5 cm.
Executed in 1997
Provenance
Le Case d'Arte, Milan.
Literature
D.van den Boogerd, B. Bloom & M. Casadio, Marlene Dumas, London/New York 1999 (installation view, illustrated, p. 91).
Exhibited
Milan, Palazzo della Triennale, Triennale di Milano - A Noir, March-April 1998.
Special Notice
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Lot Essay

'Painting is my oldest subject, Fashion my newest, and Beauty my youngest. (They say) Art no longer produces Beauty: She produces meaning. But (I say) one cannot paint a picture, or make an image of a woman, and not deal with the concept of beauty.'
(Marlene Dumas as cited in: Sweet nothings, ed. Mariska van den Berg, Marlene Dumas/Galerie Paul Andriesse/Uitgeverij De Balie, Amsterdam 1998, p. 96)

The present lot was exhibited at the exhibition A noir at the Triennale di Milano in 1998, where Dumas explored the concept of Beauty and Femininity by showing works on paper, each representing a different aspect of these concepts, challenging their stereotypical prejudices and assumptions.

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