Marlene Dumas' paintings and drawings touch on major themes like death, love and sex. This work shows unconventional sides of female sexuality: powerful, intimidating, bloodthirsty. Dracula's brides, with their ‘all-revealing’ veils, assume seductive poses. Only the middle woman's white wedding dress refers to the Christian concept of virginal innocence. Dumas plays with stereotypical female images and with the viewer’s expectations. [text 2023]
Title
The brides of Dracula
Artist
Marlene Dumas (Kaapstad 1953)
Dating
1997
Material and technique
Object number
28448
Object type
Acquisition
aankoop 1998
Dimensions
hoogte 180 cm
breedte 300 cm
Inscriptions and markings
- opschrift achterzijde r.b. (met verf): The brides of Dracula // 1997
Documentation
- Beeldende kunst 1850-2001, Marja Bosma, (de Volkskrant Magazine, 1998-08-28), pp. 700-703, met afb. in kleur
Exhibitions
- De wereld van Utrecht. Topstukken uit vijf collecties, Centraal Museum
- Samenscholing van werken uit de collectie van het Centraal Museum, Centraal Museum
- Marlene Dumas. Solopresentatie, schilderijen en tekeningen, Centraal Museum
- De schoonheid en het kwaad/The beauty of the evil, De Zonnehof
- Exorcism Aesthetic Terrorism, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
- Toile. Lichaams(re)presentatie, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
- Marlène Dumas. Miss World, Galerie Paul Andriesse
Persistent url
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