Lot 48
  • 48

Marlene Dumas

Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 GBP
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Description

  • Marlene Dumas
  • Male Stripper
  • signed, titled and dated 1999 on the reverse

  • oil on canvas
  • 60 by 50cm.
  • 23 1/2 by 19 3/4 in.

Provenance

Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Frith Street Gallery, London
Private Collection, New York
Sale: Christie's, London, Contemporary Art, 4 February 2004, Lot 43
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

London, Frith Street Gallery, MD Light, 1999, illustrated

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, Salzburg, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Figurationen/ Figurations, 1999, illustrated in colour

Catalogue Note

"It was not the nude I was looking for, nor the posing figure, but the erotic conditions of life I was after"  the artist cited in: Exhibition Catalogue, Cape Town, Iziko South African National Gallery, Marlene Dumas: Intimate Relations, 2008, p. 43