{"id":364136,"date":"2025-11-08T08:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/364136\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T08:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T08:45:17","slug":"marlene-dumas-added-to-louvres-permanent-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/364136\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlene Dumas Added to Louvre’s Permanent Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMarlene Dumas<\/a>, one of the most influential painters working today, has become the first contemporary female artist to join the Louvre<\/a>\u2019s permanent collection.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFrench publication Le Monde<\/a> reports that nine new paintings by the Dutch-South African artist have been hung on the ground floor of the Louvre\u2019s Denon Wing, which overlooks the Seine River. Dumas, who is represented by David Zwirner, is celebrated for her gestural, even ghostly figures and her off-kilter color schemes, which together hint at the mystery of a stranger\u2019s heart, let alone the hearts of those we know. The works now on view at the Louvre, from the series \u201cLiaisons,\u201d are in that vein: closed faces that seem to bleed between pine green, earthy brown, bright orange, and washed-out blue.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn May, Dumas became the most expensive living female artist in the world<\/a> when her 1997 painting Miss January, depicting a confident if uncanny half-nude woman, sold for $13.6 million with fees at a Christie\u2019s evening sale. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhile that was a market triumph, Dumas has commanded commercial and critical attention for decades: In 2008, she was the subject of a Museum of Modern Art retrospective, and at the 1995 Venice Biennale, she represented the Netherlands (where she\u2019s based). Over the years, she has appeared in four Venice Biennale main exhibitions and two editions of Documenta.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTo paint is to embark on a battle, with no guarantee of success; it is to wrestle with the elements, with the paint and the canvas, to push your own body to its limits, to resist your own thoughts and preconceptions,\u201d she told Le Monde.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Dumas acquisitions were unveiled on Thursday, November 6, under likely less-than-ideal circumstances. Diversifying the Louvre\u2019s art collection has been an ambition of museum president Laurence des Cars, who commissioned Dumas. But the October 19 theft of the crown jewels and subsequent revelations of widespread security system failures have put the museum\u2019s budget priorities under intense scrutiny.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this year, the Louvre and President Emmanuel Macron unveiled plans for a major renovation of the museum, estimated at \u20ac700 million to \u20ac800 million ($815 million\u2013$932 million).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tA report published this week by France\u2019s Court of Auditors<\/a>, parts of which were leaked to the press after the heist, determined that there had been \u201crepeated postponements of the scheduled modernization of security systems,\u201d with cameras primarily installed \u201conly when rooms have been refurbished.\u201d The report also criticized the museum for failing to prioritize security enhancements despite its annual operating budget of \u20ac323 million ($376 million), adding that \u201cthe amounts committed are small compared to the estimated needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRachida Dati, the culture minister, has since stated that a portion of that budget would be dedicated to bringing the museum\u2019s security system in line with the audit\u2019s recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marlene Dumas, one of the most influential painters working today, has become the first contemporary female artist to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":364137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,162366,176369,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-364136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-louvre","13":"tag-marlene-dumas","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115513204943761648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}