A breakthrough in the art world. The first surviving artist saw her permanent exhibition in the Louvre

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The Louvre, which has been operating as a museum for more than 230 years, has never yet devoted a permanent exhibition to a surviving artist – until now. Born in South Africa, Marlene Dumas became the first contemporary artist to gain her own place in a permanent collection of the Paris institution.