Courtesy the Dallas Museum of Art

The Dallas Museum of Art has announced the acquisition of Marlene Dumas's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (2008).

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The works, by Marlene Dumas, Jim Hodges, and Yayoi Kusama, were acquired jointly by the museum and the Rachofsky family through the DMA/amfAR Benefit Auction Fund, which has helped the museum to acquire some 70 works of contemporary art over the years.

The new acquisitions are Dumas’s For Whom the Bell Tolls (2008), a portrait based on a 1943 photograph of Ingrid Bergman; Hodges’s and still this (2005–08), a semicircular arrangement of 10 gold leaf paintings; and Kusama’s Accumulation (1962-64), a sculpture featuring a chair covered with the artist’s signature bulging forms.

“These new works by Dumas, Hodges, and Kusama each play an important role within the constellation of contemporary works at the DMA,” said the museum's director Bonnie Pitman. “Whether they represent the first work of their kind to enter our collection, such as the Kusama sculpture, or they deepen existing holdings in Dallas, such as the Dumas painting and Hodges installation, each piece further defines the DMA’s collection and reinforces our city’s standing as a major center for the collection, exhibition and study of contemporary art.”