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Marlene Dumas was born on 3 August, 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa, is a South African artist (born 1953). Discover Marlene Dumas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?
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71 years old |
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Leo |
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3 August 1953 |
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3 August |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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South Africa
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Marlene Dumas Height, Weight & Measurements
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Marlene Dumas Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Marlene Dumas worth at the age of 71 years old? Marlene Dumas’s income source is mostly from being a successful Painter. She is from South Africa. We have estimated Marlene Dumas's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Marlene Dumas (born 3 August 1953) is a South African artist and painter currently based in the Netherlands.
Dumas was born in 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa and grew up in Kuils River in the Western Cape, where her father had a vineyard.
Dumas witnessed the system of Apartheid during her childhood.
She studied art at the University of Cape Town from 1972 to 1975, and then at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem, which is now located in Amsterdam.
Dumas began painting in 1973 and showed her political concerns and reflections on her identity as a white woman of Afrikaans descent in South Africa.
She studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam in 1979 and 1980.
She currently lives and works in the Netherlands and is one of the country's most prolific artists.
The sale of Dumas's Jule-die Vrou (1985), positioned Dumas as one of three living female artists to trade for over $1 million.
The sale of The Schoolboys (1986–87) reached $9 million at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023, replacing the high of $6.3 million for her work The Visitor (1995) in 2008.
Dumas taught at the Academie voor Beeldende Vorming (ABV) in Tilburg, Academie voor Kunst en Industrie (AKI) in Enschede, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, and De Ateliers in Amsterdam (Tutorials and Coaching).
Dumas' work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Dordrechts Museum.
Her work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Dumas was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Antwerp.
She also holds degrees from the University of Cape Town, from Ateliers '63 in Haarlem, and the Institute of Psychology, University of Amsterdam.
Dumas has also featured in some films, Miss Interpreted (1997), Alice Neel (2007), Kentridge and Dumas in Conversation (2009), The Future is Now! (2011), and Screwed (2017).
Dumas often uses reference material of polaroid photographs of her friends and lovers, whilst she also references magazines and pornographic material.
She also paints portraits of children and erotic scenes to impact the world of contemporary art.
She has said that her works are better appreciated as originals since many of her smaller sexual works are very intimate.
With many of her paintings she depicts her friends, models, and prominent political figures.
Dumas paintings are seen as portraits but they do not represent people but an emotional state that one could be in.
Her art focuses on more serious issues and themes such as sexuality and race, guilt and innocence, violence and tenderness.
Dumas style is more older Romanticism tradition.
She uses loose brushstrokes to add distortion but also great detail to her art.
Dumas likes to use a wet-on-wet technique, that combines thin layers of paint with thick ones.
Her media of choice is oil on canvas and ink on paper.
Her subjects range from new born babies, models, strippers, and many figures from popular culture.
