DUMAS, Marlene
Cycladic Blues at the Cycladic

This is a book for all times; from being born, being young, being attractive and seductive, being betrayed and attacked, to being old and trying not to die.
—Marlene Dumas

The catalogue for Marlene Dumas’s exhibition, Cycladic Blues, the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, featuring over 40 paintings and works on paper, combined with over 30 antiquities from the museum’s collection. Grouped into categories – family portrait, erotic figure, fragmented body and portraits of sculptures – Dumas’s works enter into a timeless dialogue with the abstracted human forms of Cycladic figurines created by unknown artists several millennia ago.

With texts by Douglas Fogle, curator of the exhibition, and Marlene Dumas. [publishers’ note]

Texts in English and Greek / Kείμενο στα ελληνικά.

Published by ROMA Publications, 2025
Design by Roger Willems
Exhibition Catalogues / Art History