This catalog accompanies the exhibition “Marlene Dumas: Cycladic Blues” at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, featuring over 40 paintings and works of 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 the Cycladic figurines created by unknown artists several millennia ago. As the artist states on the first page: “This is a book for all time; from being born, being young, being attractive and seductive, being betrayed and attacked, to being old and trying not to die”.

With texts by Douglas Fogle, exhibition curator, and Marlene Dumas.