Marlene Dumas (SOUTH AFRICAN, B. 1953)
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Marlene Dumas (SOUTH AFRICAN, B. 1953)

The Death of Angels

Closed17 June 2009

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EUR 10,000

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Marlene Dumas (SOUTH AFRICAN, B. 1953)
The Death of Angels
inscribed with title (upper centre)
watercolour, pencil, pins, offset prints and collage on paper, unframed
150 x 163 cm.
Executed in 1979.

Specialist note

"Either way, the angels are dead. Perhaps gruesomely murdered, as the faded photocopies suggest, maybe pushed or fallen from Heaven by accident. Eternally out of reach, Heaven shines over our fading earthly existence." (op. cit. Exh. cat., Centraal Museum, Utrecht, p. 11).