Marlene Dumas’ Miss January overcomes restrained environment to become the highest-selling painting by a living woman artist ...

In May 2025, Marlene Dumas’s painting Miss January sold for $13.6 million at Christie’s in New York, setting a new auction ...

Yet there were signs the market may have turned a corner. “This season our totals are higher than last May, and we’re on target to beat November,” says Christie’s CEO Bonnie Brennan. “So the doom and ...

“In this painting, Dumas triumphantly demonstrates a formal ... At Wednesday’s auction, a 1982 triple portrait by Jean-Michel Basquiat, titled “Baby Boom,” sold for $23.4 million, and ...

Led by auctioneer Yü-Ge Wang, Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale brought in $96.5 million, with a 92 percent sell-through ...

Artist, Marlene Dumas: This painting started with myself, or me looking at myself, in this sort of awkward position of being, you know, the blonde, friendly, spontaneous woman—which is an old problem ...

Garnering total sale of $96.5 million, the top lot at the “21st Century Evening Sale” was Baby Boom, a 1982 triple portrait by Jean-Michel Basquiat ... price for a living female artist with Miss ...

Cape Town-born Marlene Dumas has set a new auction record, becoming the most expensive living female artist after her 1997 painting Miss January sold for $13.6 million (R246 million) at Christie ...

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, ...