Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Stream

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Marlene Dumas
1953-

Stream

1999
39 x 22 inches (991 x 559 mm); frame: 47 1/2 x 30 3/8 inches (1194 x 772 mm)
Ink and acrylic on wove paper.
2011.45

Gift of Howard Karshan.

Notes
Based in Amsterdam, South-African born artist Marlene Dumas is a major international artist, who was the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 2009. Her work focuses on the human figure in images whose poignancy and eroticism recall the art of Egon Schiele. Watercolors represent a large part of her production. Stream, an image of a male nude, is a remarkable example of her expressive style and fluid technique, which relies on pouring watery ink on the paper and applying it with large Chinese brushes.
Inscriptions/Markings
Titled, signed, and dated.
Classification
Century Drawings