A $12 million Marlene Dumas may smash the auction record for a living female artist. The Art Detective reveals who's parting ...

One of the highest-paid living female artists, South African painter Marlene Dumas is known for her beautifully executed depictions of porn stars, cadavers, and infants, amog other bold subjects.

Marlene Dumas is a contemporary South African painter, whose figurative works have earned her a place among the most influential painters of the 20th and 21st centuries. With an oeuvre of haunting ...

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