Marlene Dumas number one in Dutch top 100

Artist Marlene Dumas is the best the Netherlands has to offer when it comes to international prominence in the visual arts.
Dumas has had the most solo exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad and her paintings are some of the most expensive in the world  - last year her work My moeder voor sy my moeder was (My mother before she was my mother) sold for 1.7 million dollars. Dumas is also on all of the major international artists’ ranking lists.
These conclusion were reached by the Dutch news magazine Elsevier which once again compiled a list of the Top 100 living Dutch artists. It’s the seventh year the magazine has ranked Dutch artists. Elsevier applied a number of criteria to create the ranking: the number of solo exhibitions, purchases of works by museums, the number of art awards the artist has received and the number of works featured in international art magazines. Marlene Dumas stands head and shoulders above the rest. The second spot on the list belongs to photographer Rineke Dijkstra and photographer Erwin Olaf is third.
The global economic uncertainty of recent years has hurt Dutch art sales. In 2011, these top artists earned an average of 40 percent less at auction compared to the year before. Museums are also buying less art than they did a few years ago, according to Elsevier.
Marlene Dumas’ work can be seen in Fondazione Stelline in Milan, Italy, until 17 June. In 2014, Dumas will also have an exhibition in the Netherlands. Rineke Dijkstra’s photographs can be seen at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art until 28 May and from 29 June till 3 October in the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Erwin Olaf will have an exhibition at Gallery Kong in Seoul, Korea, from 25 September to 21 October.
 
See below for artworks created by Marlene Dumas, Rineke Dijkstra, and Erwin Olaf, along with a number of other Dutch artist featured on Elsivier's top 100 list, as well as RNW videos about Erwin Olaf and Atelier van Lieshout.