In a landmark moment for global contemporary art and a proud milestone for South African creativity, Marlene Dumas has become the most valuable living female artist in the world. Her towering 1997 ...

On Wednesday night, Marlene Dumas was newly crowned the most expensive living female artist in the world when her 1997 painting Miss January, featuring a woman with a ghostly white face who's ...

A Marlene Dumas painting hammered for $13.6 million during a Christie's sale tonight, making the South African painter the most expensive living female artist at auction. The painting, titled Miss ...

At first glance, the 19th-century poet Charles Baudelaire and star contemporary painter Marlene Dumas might not seem to have a lot in common. But an unprecedented exhibition of Dumas’s work in ...

A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist. “Miss January” is Dumas’ “magnum opus” and stands ...

See About archive blog posts. Collectors chasing after new work by big-name artists like Marlene Dumas, Takashi Murakami and Richard Prince know all about lists. There are the short lists ...

Auctioneer Yü-Ge Wang sells Miss January by Marlene Dumas for $13.6 million. Christie's Women dominated Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale on May 14. Led by auctioneer Yü-Ge Wang and largely ...

University of Newcastle provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Marlene Dumas, South African-born Amsterdam-based artist, is perhaps one of the most significant practising ...

The apartheid South Africa of Marlene Dumas' childhood was practically devoid of mass media. Newspapers and magazines were censored, so she clipped and saved all the pictures she could find.