Amy-Blue

Dumas, Marlene (1953-)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

2011

Height:

40.0 cm  (15 3/4 in.)

Width:

30.0 cm  (11 13/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

A close-cropped view of the face of singer Amy Winehouse, painted shortly after her death in 2011.

People as subjects

Winehouse, Amy Jade (1983-2011) (Musician portrait)

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Press on this purchase can be found at http://londonist.com/2012/11/national-portrait-gallery-purchases-amy-winehouse-portrait.php. This link includes a video clip of a curator talking about the purchase embedded. Text reads: It’s a typical work by the Amsterdam-based South African artist: close-cropped, commemorative, with details bleeding in and out of the shapes on show. “Dumas’s liquid handling of paint carries tremendous emotive power,” says Sarah Howgate, Contemporary Curator at the National Portrait Gallery. “The rich, translucent blues of this portrait allude to Amy Winehouse’s musical influences as much as to the melancholy details of her career.”

RIdIM record id

3231