Sunday, 5 October 2014

Marlene DUMAS: Michael Jackson





Marlene Dumas's paintings are concerned with mortality. Likeness I & II refer to Holbein's The Body of Christ in the Gave (1521), and the infamous tabloid image of Michael Jackson sleeping in an oxygen chamber.

Images: Likeness I & II, 2002 Oil on canvas  60.5 x 469.9 cm overall, in two parts



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