Marlène Dumas | "2 Old Friends" (After 100 Years of Sleep)

DUMAS, MARLÈNE
1953 Cape Town

Title: "2 Old Friends" (After 100 Years of Sleep).
Date: 1990.
Technique: Ink on crayon on paper.
Measurement: 24 x 32cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: Marlene 1990. Additionally titled and inscribed in the right and upper margin: 2 old friends AFTER 100 YEARS OF SLEEP.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.

Provenance:
- Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam (label)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

- Marlene Dumas is one of the best-known and most influential contemporary artists
- The representation of the human being is at the centre of her eerily beautiful works, which revolve around identity and representation
- Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, most recently at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice in an impressive retrospective and many more.