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21 27 Georgina Gratrix . Feel the love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2011 Watercolour 50 x 80 cm Unframed Estimate: R 4 500 – R 6 000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Born in Mexico City, Cape Town based artist Geogina Gratrix graduated from Michaelis in 2005. Her work is in the collections of the University of CapeTown and the Iziko South African National Gallery. The many exhibitions she has participated in include From Pierneef to Gugulective , Iziko South African National Gallery (2010). She has held two solo shows at Whatiftheworld Gallery in Cape Town (both 2008) and one at Ten Haaf Projects in Amsterdam (2010). Marlene Dumas’s paintings are represented in the most respected international collections and she is one of the highest-paid contemporary female artists in the world, with one of her works selling for R25 million in 2005. Growing up in Stellenbosch, she has lived and worked mainly in the Netherlands since 1975. In 1998 Dumas published her selection of writings entitled Sweet nothings , followed by major exhibitions of her work at the Museum of Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerp and a retrospective of her works on paper at the New Museum of New York. In 2007 the Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo held a significant retrospective of her art and in 2008 the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles) and the Museum of Modern Art (New York) collated her work in a mid-career survey that firmly established her as a leader of contemporary western art. In the same year, Intimate Relations , Dumas’s first solo exhibition in South Africa, illuminated Dumas’s concern with the ethics of representation and exposed many to a talent they had not encountered previously. In 2011 Dumas was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Stellenbosch University. Dumas’s works are represented in, amongst others, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, MoMA in New York, the MOCA in Los Angeles, the Stedelijk in Amsterdam, the Tate Modern, London and the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg. Her work has been displayed on the covers of the most important contemporary art magazines and numerous monographs have been published about her in different countries. 26 Marlene Dumas . united europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2003 Ink and acrylic on paper print Edition: 7/20 + AP 37 x 28 cm Framed Estimate: R 35 000 - R 40 000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .