Cleaning the Pole, 2000
Oil on canvas. 229.9 x 60 cm. (90 ½ x 23 5/8 in).
Signed, titled and dated 'M. Dumas Cleaning the Pole 2000' on the reverse.
PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist; Private collection, Europe
EXHIBITED Amsterdam, Theatermuseum, Theater Institute Nederland, 15 April - 3 July, 2000; Gent, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.MA.K.), 10 September - 22 October, 2000; Anton Corbijn, Marlene Dumas: Stripping Girls
LITERATURE Exhibition catalogue, Theatermuseum, Theater Institute Nederland, Anton Corbijn, Marlene Dumas: Stripping Girls, Amsterdam, 2000 (illustrated); U. Grosenick, ed., Women Artist in the 20th Century, Cologne, 2001, p. 111 (illustrated)
Since the early 1970s Marlene Dumas has been painting images that have placed her within the cutting-edge of contemporary painting. Her canvases, although containing faint art historical allusion to the works of Egon Schiele, Hans Holbeine and Francis Bacon, are unique in...
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