Marlene Dumas: Emotion as Art

Who? Before 2008, South African artist Marlene Dumas remained largely unknown beyond the realms of curators and collectors, most of her works selling for around the £50,000 bracket. But everything changed that year, when her painting The Visitor sold at Sotheby’s for £3.1m, temporarily making Dumas the world’s most expensive living female artist. Today she is widely celebrated for her abstract investigation...