Marcel Broodthaers - New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art London Wednesday, December 4, 2024 | Phillips
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    • Description

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    • Provenance

      Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      London, Tate, Marcel Broodthaers, 16 April - 26 May 1980, no. 63, p. 58 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 39)
      Kunsthalle Bern, Marcel Broodthaers 1924-1976, 30 January - 14 March 1982, p. 45 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 49, 51)
      Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Marcel Broodthaers, 15 May - 27 June 1982, pp. 53-54 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 33)
      London, Institute of Contemporary Art; Norwich Gallery, Norfolk Institute of Art and Design; Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, Marcel Broodthaers: The complete prints and editions, 4 November 1992 - 20 June 1993, no. 40, p. 16 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
      La Monnaie de Paris, Marcel Broodthaers: Musée d'Art Moderne – Département des Aigles, 18 April-3 July 2015, p. 28 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 29)
      New York, Museum of Modern Art; Madrid, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia; Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfallen, Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective, 14 February 2016 - 11 June 2017, p. 344 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 171)​
      Brussels, WIELS, Marcel Broodthaers: Industrial Poems, 10 September 2021 - 9 January 2022 (another example exhibited)
      Lugano, MASI - Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Marcel Broodthaers: Poesie industriali, 1 May - 13 November 2022 (another example exhibited)

    • Literature

      Marie-Puck Broodthaers, ed., Marcel Broodthaers,​ London, 2013, p. 142 (another example illustrated)
      Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Fridericianum, Kassel, 2020, p. 797
      Charlotte Friling and Dirk Snauwaert, eds., Industrial Poems: Marcel Broodthaers, The Complete Catalogue of the​ Plaques, 1968-1972, Brussels, 2021, no. 7.a., p. 298 (illustrated, p. 98)

Property from The Herbig Collection

73

Département des Aigles (David-Ingres-Wiertz-Courbet)

signed, numbered and dated 'ex. no.2 2/7 M.B. 69' on the reverse
painted vacuum formed plastic plate (black on a gilt background version)
84.1 x 120.8 cm (33 1/8 x 47 1/2 in.)
Executed in 1969, this work is number 2 from an edition of 7.

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

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£30,000 - 50,000 ‡♠

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New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art

London Auction 4 December 2024