Marlene Dumas - Wired: Online Auction London Thursday, May 18, 2023 | Phillips
  • “My tendency is towards often more cartoon like sketches. I come from drawing more than I come from painting... they [drawings] are always works themselves. I am not so structured, for me that is where my art comes from, the fact that I always liked to draw. I never drew from life, and I always used my imagination and things from popular culture.”
    —Marlene Dumas

    • Provenance

      Flatland Galerie, Utrecht
      Private Collection, Utrecht (acquired from the above in 1986)
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      Utrecht, Ornis A. Gallery, Personalities on paper, 4 November-16 December 2012

    • Literature

      Nick Hendrix, 'Ornis A. Gallery, Personalities on paper', The Lost Painter, 26 November 2012, online

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Exotic Death. beyond the usual alternatives.

signed, titled and dated 'Exotic Death, beyond the usual alternatives. | marlene '84 |' lower right
watercolour, gouache and graphite on paper
image 48.5 x 56.5 cm (19 1/8 x 22 1/4 in.)
framed 72.7 x 79.6 cm (28 5/8 x 31 3/8 in.)

Executed in 1984.

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Estimate
£7,000 - 10,000 ‡♠

Sold for £7,620

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