Marlene Dumas was newly crowned the most expensive living female artist in the world when her 1997 painting Miss January, featuring a woman with a ghostly white face who's naked from the waist down, ...

Marlene Dumas’ ‘Miss January’ has set a new #WorldRecord price achieved for any living female artist. The towering portrait of the beauty queen achieves US$13,635,000 during tonight’s 21st Century ...

A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist.

Christie's May 2025 sale broke records with Basquiat's Baby Boom selling for $23.4 million and Marlene Dumas's Miss January selling for $13.6 million. These results underscore the rise of contemporary ...

Other notable pairings include “Moonrise: Marlene Dumas & Edvard Munch” at the Munch Museum in Oslo and, this summer, “Cycladic Blues” at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens. The latter ...

A painting by Marlene Dumas going up for auction this month at Christie’s New York will likely break the record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by a living woman artist.

A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist. “Miss January” is Dumas’ “magnum opus” and stands ...