Sleeping Nymph

Details

Marlene Dumas (B. 1953)
Sleeping Nymph
signed, titled and dated ‘M Dumas 2003 Sleeping nimf.’ (lower right)
watercolour and glitter on paper
24 ½ x 33 1/8in. (62.1 x 84.1cm.)
Executed in 2003

Provenance

Le Case d'Arte, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.

Special Notice

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Sale Room Notice

Please note that the medium of this work is 'watercolour and glitter on paper', not as stated in the printed catalogue.

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Lot Essay

'[My work] is suggestive, it suggest all sorts of narratives, but it doesn’t really tell you what’s going on at all. Someone said that it feels as if something has happened, in the sense of an after-event, or alternatively that something’s going to happen but you don’t yet know what it is. It’s as if I can make people think they are so close to me that they believe I’ve addressed the painting directly to them. I give them a false sense of intimacy. I think the work invites you to have a conversation with it.' MARLENE DUMAS

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