Marlene Dumas
Pre-Language Pretence
LOT 11
Marlene Dumas
Pre-Language Pretence
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 300 000 - 400 000
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About this Item
South African/Dutch 1953-
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signed with the artist's initials, dated 2001 and inscribed with the title in pencil in the margin
ink and conté on paper
25 by 16cm excluding frame; 55,5 by 46 by 3cm including frame
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Memorial to a holiday maker, Bob O’Neill, who drowned here on 4 December 1990 after suffering a heart attack while fishing. The quotation from Psalm 23, He leadeth me beside the still waters, was painted by O’Neill’s son-in-law and has been renewed every year since by a local resident, John Burns. Pearly Beach, Western Cape. 25 January 2004
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