Marcel Broodthaers - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 7, 2025 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Anvers, Wide White Space Gallery, Le Corbeau et Le Renard, 7–24 March 1968 (another example exhibited)
    Mönchengladbach, Städtisches Museum, Film als Objekt - Objekt als Film, 21 October–7 November 1971 (another example exhibited)
    Antwerp, Wide White Space Gallery, Le Corbeau et le Renard, 17-30 June 1972 (another example exhibited)
    Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume; Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Marcel Broodthaers, 17 December 1991–8 June 1992, pp. 116-124, 157, 320 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 116, installation view of another example illustrated, pp. 117, 120-121, 157, another example partially illustrated, pp. 117, 122-124)
    Kunstmuseum Basel, Le corbeau et le renard: The Revolt of Language Marcel Broodthaers, 22 March-17 August 2014 (another example exhibited)
    Monnaie de Paris, Marcel Broodthaers: Musée d'art moderne, Département des aigles, 18 April-5 July 2015, pp. 30, 32 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 32)
    New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective, 14 February-15 May 2016, pp. 140-146, 345 (another example exhibited and installation view of another example illustrated, pp. 140-141, another example illustrated, p. 142, another example partially illustrated, pp. 143-146)
    Antwerp, M KHA, Marcel Broodthaers: Soleil Politique, 4 October 2019-19 January 2020 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    Marcel Broodthaers, exh. cat., Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, pp. 111-112, 115, 117 (another example mentioned)
    Marcel Broodthaers, exh. cat., The Tate Gallery, London, 1980, pp. 120, 122 (another example mentioned)
    Marcel Broodthaers, exh. cat., Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1989, pp. 38-39, 116 (installation view of another example illustrated, p. 39)
    Manuel J. Borja-Villel and Michael Compton, eds., Marcel Broodthaers: Cinéma, exh. cat. and catalogue raisonné, Barcelona, 1997, pp. 52-67, 193 (another example partially illustrated, pp. 52-53, 56, 59, 62-63, installation view of another example illustrated, pp. 54, 64-65)
    Gloria Moure, ed., Marcel Broodthaers: Collected Writings, Barcelona, 2012, pp. 172-175, 178-181 (installation view of another example illustrated, pp. 172-173, 175, 178, another example partially illustrated, p. 179-180, another example illustrated, p. 181)
    Marie-Puck Broodthaers, ed., Marcel Broodthaers,​ London, 2013, p. 313 (installation view of another example illustrated, p. 118)
    Charlotte Friling and Dirk Snauwaert, eds., Industrial Poems: Marcel Broodthaers, The Complete Catalogue of the​ Plaques, 1968-1972, Brussels, 2021, pp. 283, 296 (another example illustrated)

Property from The Herbig Collection

202

Le Corbeau et le Renard

(ii) signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'Le Corbeau et le Renard M.B. 1968' on a label affixed to the front
(iii-iv) signed with the artist's initials, numbered and dated 'M.B. 5/40 1967' upper part
(v) signed with the artist's initials, numbered and dated '5/40 M.B. 1967' lower right
(vi) signed with the artist's initials, titled and numbered 'Le Corbeau et le Renard . 5/40 M.B.' lower right
(x) signed with the artist's initials and dated 'M.B. 5/40' lower left
(xi) signed with the artist's initials, numbered and dated '5/40 M.B. 1967 .' on the reverse

(i) printed screen and painted wood
(ii) film reel in metallic container with label Wide White Space Gallery – Antwerp/Belgium
(iii-iv) printed canvas on card roll
(v) printed canvas collage on felt
(vi-vii) double-sided printed canvas on card
(viii) fabric on cardboard box
(ix) printed canvas on card, in printed canvas covered artist's frame
(x) paper collage on lithograph on card
(xi) lithograph on card

(i) 166 x 221.6 cm (65 3/8 x 87 1/4 in.)
(ii) diameter: 19 cm (7 1/2 in.)
(iii) 27 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm (10 5/8 x 0 7/8 x 0 7/8 in.)
(v) 75.7 x 44.9 cm (29 3/4 x 17 5/8 in.)
(vi-vii) 54 x 75.9 cm (21 1/4 x 29 7/8 in.)
(viii) 57 x 78.4 x 6.1 cm (22 1/2 x 30 7/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
(ix) 61 x 81 x 4.2 cm (24 x 31 7/8 x 1 5/8 in.)
(x) 54.2 x 75.8 cm (21 3/8 x 29 7/8 in.)
(xi) 54.2 x 75.9 cm (21 3/8 x 29 7/8 in.)

Executed in 1967-1968, this work is number 5 from an edition of 40.

We are grateful for Marie-Puck Broodthaers’ assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.

Estimate
£80,000 - 120,000 ‡♠

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

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