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Marlene Dumas
Dead Girl2002

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Vertical oil painting, close-up portrait of a sideways-tilted head with pale skin and dark hair, set against a cream background with two red forms along the right edge

Marlene Dumas, Dead Girl, 2002, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Jill and Dennis Roach, Directors, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Marlene Dumas
South Africa, Province of the Western Cape, Capetown, active Netherlands, born 1953
Title
Dead Girl
Place Made
Holland
Date Made
2002
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 51 3/8 x 43 1/4 in. (130.49 x 109.86 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Jill and Dennis Roach, Directors
Accession Number
M.2003.1
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Butler, Cornelia. Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008.
  • Coelewij, Leontine, Helen Sainsbury, and Theodora Vischer, eds. Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden. London: Tate Publishing, 2014.
  • Marlene Dumas, Zeno X Gallery: 25 Years of Collaboration. Antwerp: Zeno X Books, 2020.

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