Live Auction 3049Post-War and Contemporary Art
Marlene Dumas (b. 1953)
Lot 57 PROPERTY FROM THE ALESSANDRO GRASSI COLLECTION

Marlene Dumas (b. 1953)

Selfportrait as a little old lady

Closed5 November 2014

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EUR 61,500

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Marlene Dumas (b. 1953)
Selfportrait as a little old lady
signed and dated 'M Dumas 1998' (lower right); titled 'Selfportrait as a little old lady' (upper right)
ink and acrylic on paper
125 x 70 cm.
Executed in 1998

Le Case d'Arte, Milan.
Acquired from the above by Alessandro Grassi.

Specialist note

'I am intimately involved with my subject matter... I am not disengaged from the subject of my gaze. With photographic activities it is possible that those who take the picture leave no traces of their presence, and are absent from the images. Paintings exist as the traces of their makers and by the grace of these traces. You can't take a painting - you make a painting.' (M. Dumas, quoted in D. van den Boogerd, B. Bloom & M. Casadio (eds.), Marlene Dumas, London 1999, p. 122)