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Le surréalisme révolutionnaire1948Periodical10 5/8 × 8 1/2" (27 × 21.6 cm)Two copies: The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York; Private collection, Brussels

Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)

Louis Bourgoignie d'écriture (Louis Bourgoignie on writing)

1954

Poetry book. Pen, ten pages with plastic cover

page (each): 8 1/4 x 6 1/2" (21 x 16.5 cm); overall (closed): 8 1/4 x

6 1/2 x 1/16" (21 x 16.5 x 0.2 cm)

Partial gift of the Daled Collection and partial purchase through the

generosity of Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann, Sue and Edgar

Wachenheim III, Agnes Gund, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin,

Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Jerry I. Speyer and

Katherine G. Farley, 2011


"Adieu, Police!" published in Phantômas, no. 2

April 1954

Journal, letterpress printed

page (each): 7 5/8 × 5 3/8" (19.4 × 13.7 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Dr. Samuel Mandel

(by exchange), 2015


"Le Roi midi" published in Phantômas, no. 3

September 1954

Journal, letterpress printed

page (each): 7 7/8 × 5 3/8" (20 × 13.7 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Dr. Samuel Mandel (by exchange), 2015

Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective


Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)La Clef de l’horloge, Poème cinématographique en l’honneur de Kurt Schwitters (The key to the clock, Cinematic poem in honor of Kurt Schwitters).195716mm film (black and white, sound)7 min., 30 sec.Collection Jill and Peter Kraus

Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)Mon livre d'ogre (My ogre book)1957Poetry book. Letterpress, forty-four pages, with line block frontispiece by Serge Vandercampage (each): 8 x 6 1/8" (20.3 x 15.5 cm); overall (closed): 8 3/16 x 6 5/16 x 1/8" (20.8 x 16.1 x 0.3 cm)Partial gift of the Daled Collection and partial purchase through the generosity of Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Agnes Gund, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, 2011


Mon livre d'ogre (My ogre book)

1957

Poetry book. Letterpress, forty-four pages, with line block

frontispiece by Serge Vandercam

page (each): 8 x 6 1/8" (20.3 x 15.5 cm); overall (closed): 8 3/16 x

6 5/16 x 1/8" (20.8 x 16.1 x 0.3 cm)

Private collection, Brussels


Mon livre d'ogre (My ogre book)1957Poetry book. Letterpress, forty-four pages, with line block frontispiece by Serge Vandercampage (each): 8 x 6 1/8" (20.3 x 15.5 cm); overall (closed): 8 3/16 x 6 5/16 x 1/8" (20.8 x 16.1 x 0.3 cm)Collection Todd Alden, New York

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Catalogue for Experimental Film Competition

1958

Publisher: Belgian Film Library The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York

Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)Marcel Broodthaers documenting the construction of the Atomium, Brussels1957Gelatin silver print9 3/8 × 6 15/16" (23.8 × 17.6 cm)Private collection, Brussels


Photograph of the World's Fair, Brussels

1958

Gelatin silver print

11 5/8 × 7 11/16" (29.5 × 19.5 cm)


Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976) Photograph of the World’s Fair, Brussels

1958


7 1/2 × 10 15/16" (19 × 27.8 cm)



Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976) Photograph of the World’s Fair, Brussels

1958


5 1/16 × 7 1/16" (12.9 × 18 cm)

Collection Marie-Puck Broodthaers

Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976) Photograph of the World’s Fair, Brussels1957Gelatin silver print11 9/16 × 7 11/16" (29.3 × 19.5 cm)Private collection, Brussels


Minuit (Midnight)

1960

Poetry book. Letterpress, twenty-four pages, with frontispiece by

Serge Vandercam

page (each): 8 1/8 x 6 1/4" (20.7 x 15.8 cm); overall (closed): 8 1/4

x 6 5/8 x 1/8" (21 x 16.8 x 0.3 cm)

Partial gift of the Daled Collection and partial purchase through

the generosity of Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann, Sue and

Edgar Wachenheim III, Agnes Gund, Marlene Hess and James D.

Zirin, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Jerry I. Speyer and



Minuit (Midnight)

1960


Serge Vandercam


x 6 5/8 x 1/8" (21 x 16.8 x 0.3 cm)

Collection Philip and Shelley Fox Aarons



Minuit (Midnight)

1960


Serge Vandercam


x 6 5/8 x 1/8" (21 x 16.8 x 0.3 cm)



La Bête noire (The black beast)

1961

Poetry book. Letterpress, sixteen pages, with etchings by Jan

Sanders

page (each): 5 5/16 x 10 5/8" (13.5 x 27 cm); overall (closed): 5

5/16 x 10 5/8 x 1/16" (13.5 x 27 x 0.2 cm)








1961


Sanders


5/16 x 10 5/8 x 1/16" (13.5 x 27 x 0.2 cm)





1961


Sanders


5/16 x 10 5/8 x 1/16" (13.5 x 27 x 0.2 cm)




Antwerp Zoo Rhinoceros

1961


6 7/8 × 9 5/16" (17.5 × 23.7 cm)


Gare au défi! Le Pop Art, Jim Dine et l’influence de René Magritte

(Beware the challenge! Pop art, Jim Dine and the influence of

René Magritte)

1963

Digital reproduction, printed 2016

Image courtesy Maria Gilissen Archives of Marcel Broodthaers


Le Problème noir en Belgique (The black problem in Belgium)

1963–64

Newspaper (Le Soir, Brussels, January 19--20, 1964), manufactured

eggs, paint, and nail on found decorative-paper board

18 15/16 × 15 3/8 × 2 1/2" (48.1 × 39.1 × 6.4 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase, 2015


Papa

1963/1966

Painted eggshells on painted half of a chair, and painted beveled mirror

with paint, chalk, and rope

Half chair and painted eggshells: 35 1/4 × 16 9/16 × 13 9/16" (89.5

× 42 × 34.5 cm)

Mirror: 19 5/16" (49 cm) diam.

Private Collection. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)Pense-Bête (Memory aid)1964Poetry book. Letterpress, thirty-two pages, some with collage overall: 11 5/8 x 8 3/4 x 3/16" (29.5 x 22.2 x 0.4 cm)Partial gift of the Daled Collection and partial purchase through the generosity of Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Agnes Gund, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Jerry I. Speyerand Katherine G. Farley, 2011


Pense-Bête (Memory aid)

1964

Poetry book. Letterpress, thirty-two pages, with collage overall:

11 5/8 x 8 3/4 x 3/16" (29.5 x 22.2 x 0.4 cm)




1964

Poetry book. Letterpress, thirty-two pages

overall: 11 5/8 x 8 3/4 x 3/16" (29.5 x 22.2 x 0.4 cm) Collection

Pierre F. Daled, Brussels



1964

Poetry book. Letterpress, thirty-two pages, with collage

11 5/8 × 8 3/4 × 3/16" (29.5 × 22.2 × 0.4 cm)



Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)Invitation to Moi aussi, je me suis demandé si je ne pouvais pas vendre quelque chose et réussir dans la vie . . . , (I, too, wondered whether I couldn’t sell something . . .), Galerie Saint Laurent, Brussels, April 10–25, 19641964Letterpress on magazine pagepage (each approx.): 9 7/8 x 6 5/8" (25.1 x 16.9 cm); sheet (unfolded): 9 15/16 x 13 1/4" (25.2 x 33.6 cm)Private collection, Brussels


Invitation to Moi aussi, je me suis demandé si je ne pouvais pas vendre quelque chose et réussirdans la vie . . . , (I, too, wondered whether I couldn’t sell something . . .), Galerie Saint Laurent, Brussels, April 10–25, 1964 1964

Letterpress on magazine page

page (each approx.): 9 7/8 x 6 5/8" (25.1 x 16.9 cm); sheet

(unfolded): 9 15/16 x 13 1/4" (25.2 x 33.6 cm)

Committee on Prints and Illustrated Books Fund

Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)Invitation to Moi aussi, je me suis demandé si je ne pouvais pas vendre quelque chose et réussir dans la vie . . . , (I, too, wondered whether I couldn’t sell something . . .), Galerie Saint Laurent, Brussels, April 10–25, 19641964Letterpress on magazine pagepage (each approx.): 9 7/8 x 6 5/8" (25.1 x 16.9 cm); sheet (unfolded): 9 15/16 x 13 1/4" (25.2 x 33.6 cm)Private collection, Brussels

Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)Invitation to Moi aussi, je me suis demandé si je ne pouvais pas vendre quelque chose et réussirdans la vie . . . , (I, too, wondered whether I couldn’t sell something . . .), Galerie Saint Laurent, Brussels, April 10–25, 19641964Letterpress on magazine pagepage (each approx.): 9 7/8 x 6 5/8" (25.1 x 16.9 cm); sheet (unfolded): 9 15/16 x 13 1/4" (25.2 x 33.6 cm)Private collection, Brussels


Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)Pense-Bête (Memory aid)1964Books, paper, plaster, and plastic balls on wooden baseWithout base: 11 13/16 × 33 1/4 × 16 15/16" (30 × 84.5 × 43 cm) Collection Flemish Community, long term loan S.M.A.K.


Pour un haut devenir du comportement artistique (For a lofty future

of the artistic comportment)

1964

Printed book cover, metal screws, eggshells, and plaster on panel 11 13/16 x 27 9/16 x 5 7/8" (30 x 70 x 15 cm)



La Valise belge (The Belgian suitcase)

1964

Painted panel with painted manufactured eggs and fragment of

umbrella; painted oilcloth suitcase containing painted umbrella

handle, folded painted canvas, painted helmet, and mussel shells

on painted wooden base

Suitcase: 10 13/16 × 22 1/4 × 19 1/8" (27.5 × 56.5 × 48.5 cm) Panel: 29 15/16 × 21 7/8 × 4 3/4" (76 × 55.5 × 12 cm)

Private collection. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth


La Grand-Mère (The grandmother)

1964

Eggshells, mussel shell, cup, bicycle pump, brush, plastic ball,

hemp, and porcelain figurine encased in plaster with frame

31 1/2 × 15 3/4 × 5 7/8" (80 × 40 × 15 cm)

Framed: 28 3/4 × 18 1/2 × 3 15/16" (73 × 47 × 10 cm)




Pupitre à musique (Music stand)

1964

Mussel shells, plaster, and paint on wooden music stand

55 1/8 × 40 3/16 × 20 7/8" (140 × 102 × 53 cm)



Le Cycle de la vie (The cycle of life)

1964

Plastic eggs containing plastic toys, hair, cotton, and hourglass

on painted wooden shelf

2 15/16 x 19 11/16 x 3 3/8" (7.5 x 50 x 8.5 cm)

Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, the Netherlands

Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)Les Jambes rouges (The red legs)1964Plastic tray, wood, plaster, paint, doll’s legs, and eggshells on wooden base19 5/8 × 8 1/2 × 10 3/4" (49.8 × 21.6 × 27.3 cm)Collection Jill and Peter Kraus

Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)Fémur d’homme belge (Femur of a Belgian man)1964–1965Painted human thighbone3 1/8 x 18 1/2 x 3 15/16" (8 x 47 x 10 cm)Collection Sylvio Perlstein, Antwerp


Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)Fémur d’une femme française (Femur of a French woman) 1965Painted human thighbone3 9/16 x 17 x 3 1/2" (9.1 x 43.2 x 8.9 cm)The Sonnabend Collection Foundation and Antonio Homem


Armoire blanche et table blanche (White cabinet and white table) 1965

Painted furniture with eggshellsCabinet 33 7/8 x 32 1/4 x 24 1/2" (86 x 82 x 62 cm), table 41 x 39

3/8 x 15 3/4" (104 x 100 x 40 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fractional and promised

gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, 1992


Untitled (Triptych)

1965-1966

Eggshells on painted canvas

Each: 39 3/8 x 27 9/16 x 3 15/16" (100 x 70 x 10 cm)

Black and Yellow panels: M.-C. & Ch. Firmenich-Guillissen / Pierre Huber, Art & Public, GenevaRed panel: Collection Sylvio Perlstein, Antwerp

Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976) Rose, M. Broodthaers1965-66Glass, plastic, paper, and cotton10 5/8 × 6 5/16" (27 × 16 cm)Private collection, Belgium



Triomphe de moule I (Triumph of mussel I)

1965

Painted pot, mussel shells, and tinted resin

18 3/4 × 19 5/8 × 15" (47.6 × 49.8 × 38.1 cm)

Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gift (by exchange) of Mr. and Mrs. R.

Sturgis Ingersoll and Mrs. Herbert Cameron Morris


Frites (Fries)1966

Painted wood and ceramic bowl

9 7/16 x 9 7/16 x 8 11/16" (24 x 24 x 22 cm)




Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine

G. Farley, 2011


Maria

1966

Dress, hanger, and printed shopping bag with eggshells onprimed canvas

44 1/8 x 39 3/8 x 4 3/4" (112 x 100 x 12 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Herman J. Daled, 2011



Eye in a Plastic Container

1966

Photomechanical reproduction and plastic container

1 5/8 x 1 5/16 x 1 5/16" (4.2 x 3.4 x 3.4 cm)







Tour visuelle (Visual tower)

1966

Painted wooden shelves with glass jars containing printed

advertisements (for Helena Rubinstein cosmetic products) and

cotton

19 9⁄16 in. (49.7 cm) diam.; 34 15⁄16 in. (88.7 cm) high

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh


L'Erreur (The error)

1966

Eggshells on painted canvas

39 3/8 × 27 9/16 × 3 1/8" (100 × 70 × 8 cm)

Kravis Collection


Je retourne à la matière, je retrouve la tradition des primitifs,

peinture à l’oeuf, peinture à l’oeuf (I return to matter, I rediscover

the tradition of the primitives, painting with egg, painting with egg)

1966

Wooden box containing eggshell fragments (some painted) and

invitations

Box (open): 12 5/16 × 10 13/16 × 10 3/16" (31.3 × 27.5 × 25.8

cm)

Tate. Purchase, 1980



Cercle de moules (Circle of mussels)

1966

Mussel shells with tinted resin on painted panel

63 in. (160 cm) diam.



Pool

1966

Two painted wooden barrels (one with chalk) and eggshells

Each barrel: 9 13/16" in. (25 cm) diam.; 13 in. (33 cm) high

Private collection


La Caméra qui regarde (The watching camera)

1966

Glass jars containing printed advertisements (for Helena

Rubinstein cosmetic products) and cotton on wooden shelves and

tripod

41 3/4 × 5 1/2 × 14 3/16" (106 × 14 × 36 cm)



Meuble de salon noir (Furniture of the black parlor)

1966

Wooden coffin with glass jars containing cut photographic paper

on photographic paper

70 7/8 × 20 1/2 × 6 1/2" (180 × 52 × 16.5 cm)

Pinault Collection



Panneau de moules (Panel of mussels)

1966


45 3/4 x 48 x 5 1/2" (116.2 x 121.9 x 14 cm)

National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of the Collectors

Committee, 2005


Étagère (Le D est plus grand que le T) (Shelf [The D is bigger

than the T])

1966-68

Letterpress on canvas on painted shelf with cut gelatin silver

prints, painted cardboard tubes, and printed card

34 5/8 × 29 15/16 × 5 7/8" (88 × 76 × 15 cm)

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie


Invitation to Je retourne à la matière, je retrouve la tradition des

primitifs, peinture à l’oeuf, peinture à l’oeuf, Galerie Cogeime,

Brussels, September 27–October 9, 1966

1966

Offset lithograph on perforated, adhesive-backed paper

6 5/8 × 9 13/16" (16.9 × 25 cm)



Phantômas (issue dedicated to Marcel Broodthaers), no. 62

February, 1966

Offset, printed in color

8 7/8 × 5 9/16" (22.5 × 14.1 cm)



Catalogue for Moules OEufs Frites Pots Charbon (Mussels eggs

fries pots coal), Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp, May

26–June 26, 1966

1966

offset, printed in black

Cover: 7 7/8 × 5 7/16" (20 × 13.8 cm)

Herman and Nicole Daled Papers, partial gift of the Daled

Collection, I.31. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York


Le Corbeau et le Renard (The crow and the fox)

1967–1968

Lithographs, one with cut and collaged chromogenic color prints; cut photographic canvas on felt; two photographic canvases mounted on wooden sticks; two-sided photographic canvas; photographic canvas on wooden panel; 16mm film (color, silent), 7 min.; metal cannisterDimensions variable







Moules sauce blanche (Mussels with white sauce)

1967

Painted pot, mussel shells, paint, and tinted resin

14 3⁄4 in. (37.5 cm) diam.; 19 1⁄8 in. (48.5 cm) high

Private collection, New York


100/100% Ordres de bourse, La Banque (100/100% stock orders,

The bank)

1967

Painted photographic canvas on two cut-out panels

Each panel (one irreg.): 41 3/4 x 43 5/16 x 13/16" (106 x 110 x 2

cm)

Estate Marcel Broodthaers



Planche à charbon (Coal board)

1967

Coal on painted wood

98 7/16 × 31 1/2 × 9 13/16" (250 × 80 × 25 cm)

Pinault Collection


L’Objet écrit (la bouteille de lait) (The written object [the bottle of

milk])

1967

Photographic canvas with four painted glass milk bottles on

painted wooden shelf

29 15/16 × 22 1/16 × 6 5/16" (76 × 56 × 16 cm)

Private collection


Monument an X (Monument year X)

1967

Bricks, mortar, plaster, and trowel

31 1/8 × 7 1/2 × 13 3/4" (79 × 19 × 35 cm)

Collection Fabre, Brussels



1967

Retractable projection screen with printed letters

63 3/8 × 85 13/16" (161 × 218 cm)




Véritablement (Truly)

1967

Photographic canvas

70 1/16 x 48 1/16" (178 x 122 cm)

Private collection


Moules (Mussels)

1967

Photographic canvas

39 3/8 × 31 1/2" (100 × 80 cm)

Collection Carl Keirsmaekers, Belgium


EEEE...S

1967

Acrylic on photographic canvas

47 5/8 x 39 15/16" (121 x 101.5 cm)

Private collection


Catalogue for Marcel Broodt(h)aers / Court-circuit (Marcel

Broodt[h]aers / Short circuit), Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels,

April 13–25, 1967

1967

Offset lithograph, sixteen pages

Page: 5 1/4 × 6" (13.4 × 15.2 cm)



Catalogue for Marcel Broodt(h)aers / Courtcircuit (Marcel

Broodt[h]aers / Short circuit), Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels,

April 13–25, 1967

1967

Offset lithograph, sixteen pages

Cover: 8 5/16 × 6" (21.1 × 15.2 cm)



Exhibition checklist for Marcel Broodthaers: ‘Le Court-Circuit’,

April 13–25, 1967

1967

offset, printed in black

Cover: 8 1/4 × 5 7/8" (21 × 14.9 cm)




Invitation to Le Corbeau et le Renard (The crow and the fox), Wide

White Space Gallery, Antwerp, March 7–24, 1968

March 24, 1968

Letterpress

4 3/16 × 6 7/16" (10.6 × 16.4 cm)




Invitation from Marcel Broodthaers to Herman and Nicole Daled to

the inauguration of Section XIXe siècle, Musée d’Art Moderne,

Département des Aigles (Nineteenth-century section, Museum of

modern art, Department of eagles), on September 27, 1968

September 27, 1968

Letterpress and ink

4 9/16 × 6 15/16" (11.6 × 17.6 cm)





Open letter, "À mes amis/Palais des Beaux-Arts le 7/6/68" (To my

friends)

June 7, 1968

Mimeograph

10 3/4 × 8 7/16" (27.3 × 21.4 cm)




Open letter, "Chers Amis/Paris, le 29 novembre 1968" (Dear

friends)

November 29, 1968

Mimeograph with ink

10 13/16 × 8 7/16" (27.5 × 21.4 cm)




Untitled (Cartes postales concernant la peinture du XIX siècle)

[Postcards of nineteenth-century paintings]

1968

Twenty-six postcards in frame

Frame: 28 7/8 x 37 11/16" (73.3 x 95.8 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Promised Gift of

Nicole Daled-Verstraeten, 2011


Caquelon de moules (Pot of mussels)1968

Mussel shells with tinted resin in painted pot5 7/8 x 13 x 9 13/16" (15 x 33 x 25 cm)








Le Lion belge (The Belgian lion)June 1968

Frying pan containing found vacuum-formed plastic lion head4 3/4 x 16 15/16 x 9 5/8" (12 x 43 x 24.5 cm)







Véritablement (Truly) 1968

Gelatin silver emulsion on canvas

30 1/2 x 48 7/16 x 1" (77.5 x 123 x 2.5 cm)







Le Réchaud à gaz (Gas stove) 1968-70

Eggshells, paint, feather, and stove

7 7/8 x 13 3/4 x 6 5/16" (20 x 35 x 16 cm)







Académie I (Academy I)

1968

Painted vacuum-formed plastic plate

33 3/4 x 46 15/16 x 3/16" (85.7 x 119.3 x 0.5 cm)








Académie II (Academy II)

1968


overall: 33 3/4 x 46 15/16 x 3/16" (85.7 x 119.2 x 0.5 cm)







Chez votre fournisseur (Le Vinaigre des Aigles) (At your supplier

[Vinegar of Eagles])

1968


overall: 32 3/16 x 47 1/16 x 1 9/16" (81.8 x 119.5 x 4 cm)







Chez votre fournisseur (Le Vinaigre des Aigles) (At your supplier

[Vinegar of Eagles])

1968


overall: 32 3/16 x 46 7/8 x 1 9/16" (81.8 x 119 x 4 cm)







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

(Department of eagles [David–Ingres–Wiertz–Courbet])

1968


overall: 33 1/16 x 47 5/8 x 3/16" (84 x 121 x 0.5 cm)








Le Drapeau noir, tirage illimité (The black flag, unlimited edition)

1968


overall: 32 11/16 x 47 1/8 x 3/8" (83 x 119.7 x 1 cm)







Rue René Magritte Straat (Street René Magritte street)

1968


overall: 32 1/2 x 46 15/16 x 3/16" (82.5 x 119.3 x 0.5 cm)







Téléphone

1968


overall: 33 1/16 x 46 7/8 x 3/16" (84 x 119 x 0.5 cm)







Museum, enfants non admis (Museum, children not admitted)

1968-69


overall: 32 3/16 x 46 3/4 x 3/16" (81.7 x 118.7 x 0.5 cm)








Carte du monde poétique (Map of the poetic world)

1968

Pen on printed world map mounted on canvas

Framed: 47 5/8 × 73 5/8 × 1 9/16" (121 × 187 × 4 cm)

Herbert Foundation, Ghent


Panneau de moules (Panel of mussels)

1968


48 7/16 × 25 3/8 × 3 15/16" (123 × 64.5 × 10 cm)

Private collection


Projection sur caisse (Projection on crate)

1968

Fifty 35mm slides projected on commercial packing crate, with

postcards on wall

Packing crate: 65 3/8 x 66 1/8 x 6 5/16" (166 x 168 x 16 cm)

Département des Aigles



1968

Photographic canvas, typewriter, and three printed sheets

Canvas: 44 1/4 × 32 5/16 × 16 1/8" (112.4 × 82 × 41 cm)

Each sheet: 11 13/16 × 8 7/16" (30 × 21.5 cm)

Centre Pompidou, Paris / Musée national d´art moderne, Centre

de création industrielle



Il n'y a pas de structures primaires (There are no primary

structures)

1968

Oil on canvas

30 1/2 × 45 1/4" (77.5 × 115 cm)

Galerie Michael Werner Märkisch Wilmersdorf, Cologne, and New

York



1968

Cut photographic canvas on three painted tubes

Two tubes: 2 9⁄16 in. (6.5 cm) diam.; 44 1⁄8 in. (112 cm) high

One tube: 2 3⁄16 in. (5.5 cm) diam.; 44 1⁄8 in. (112 cm) high



Museum (casquette) (Museum [cap])1969

object, plexiglass

Overall: 14 15/16 x 10 5/8 x 12 1/2" (38 x 27 x 31.8 cm)

Hat on stand: 9 1/16 x 6 11/16 x 5 1/8" (23 x 17 x 13 cm)


Collection, I.38*. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.


Invitation from Marcel Broodthaers to Herman and Nicole Daled to

the closing ceremony of Section XIXe siècle, Musée d’Art

Moderne, Département des Aigles (Nineteenth-century section,

Museum of modern art, Department of eagles), on September 27,

1968

September 27, 1969

Letterpress and ink

4 9/16 × 6 15/16" (11.6 × 17.6 cm)





Open letter, Certificate of authenticity from the Musée d’Art

Moderne, Département des Aigles

November 15, 1969

Mimeograph

10 13/16 × 8 1/2" (27.5 × 21.6 cm)




Open letter, “Mon Cher Lamelas, 1. Conceptual artists are more

rationalists rather than mystics... etc.........”

October 31, 1969

Mimeograph

10 13/16 × 8 7/16" (27.5 × 21.4 cm)




Open letter, “Mon cher Kasper, Ce qui me reste comme souvenir

principal de notre tour d’horizon dans la salle I du musée, c’est

notre admiration commune pour le portrait de Mademoiselle

Rivière par Ingres....”

May 9, 1969

Mimeograph

10 13/16 × 8 7/16" (27.5 × 21.4 cm)




Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard (A throw of the dice will

never abolish chance)

1969

Artist's book. Offset lithograph, thirty-two pages

page (each): 12 3/4 x 9 13/16" (32.4 x 24.9 cm); book: 12 3/4 x 9

13/16 x 1/8" (32.4 x 24.9 x 0.3 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase, 1982





1969

Artist's book. Offset lithograph, thirty-two pages

page (each): 12 13/16 x 9 3/4" (32.5 x 24.7 cm); overall (closed):

12 13/16 x 9 13/16 x 1/8" (32.5 x 25 x 0.3 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of

Howard B. Johnson in honor of Riva Castleman, 1994


Modèle: La Pipe

1969


overall: 32 7/16 x 46 7/8 x 3/16" (82.4 x 119 x 0.5 cm)







Modèle: La Pipe

1969


overall: 32 7/8 x 47 5/8 x 3/16" (83.5 x 121 x 0.5 cm)







Musée d'Art Moderne, Les Aigles, Section XIXe siècle (Museum

of modern art, The eagles, Nineteenth-century section)

1969

Two painted vacuum-formed plastic plates

Each: 76 3/16 x 35 1/4 x 3/16" (193.5 x 89.5 x 0.5 cm)








Porte A (Door A)

1969


overall: 33 7/16 x 46 9/16 x 3/16" (85 x 118.3 x 0.5 cm)









1969

Mechanical engraving and paint on twelve aluminum plates

plate (each): 12 3/4 x 19 9/16 x 1/8" (32.4 x 49.7 x 0.3 cm)







Vingt ans après (Twenty years after), vol. 1

1969

Artist's book. Volume 1 of Vingt ans après, by Alexandre Dumas

(1845, Paris: Gallimard, 1961), with letterpress wrap and pasted

insert containing an interview between the artist and the publisher

overall: 6 9/16 x 4 7/16 x 7/8" (16.6 x 11.2 x 2.2 cm)







Vingt ans après (Twenty years after), vol. 2

1969

Artist's book. Volume 2 of Vingt ans après, by Alexandre Dumas

(1845, Paris: Gallimard, 1961), with letterpress wrap and pasted

insert containing an interview between the artist and the publisher

page (each): 6 1/2 × 4 5/16" (16.5 × 10.9 cm); overall (closed): 6

1/2 × 4 5/16 × 15/16" (16.5 × 11 × 2.4 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Riva Castleman Endowment Fund, 2015



Un coup de dés jamais quand bien même . . . (A throw of the dice

even though . . .)

1969

Felt-tip pen and paint on canvas

64 15/16 x 48 1/16" (165 x 122 cm)

Speck Collection, Cologne


Quatre Pipes Alphabet (Four pipes alphabet)

1969

Four painted vacuum-formed plastic plates

Each: 33 1/16 × 47 1/4 × 3/16" (84 × 120 × 0.5 cm)



Le Costume d'Igitur (The suit of Igitur)

1969

Jacket and coat hanger with label

35 7/16 x 19 11/16" (90 x 50 cm)

Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg


Plan du musée d'art moderne de Bruxelles (Map of the museum of

modern art of Brussels)

1969

Felt-tip pen on cardboard

23 5/8 × 33 1/4" (60 × 84.5 cm)

Benjamin Katz



Un voyage à Waterloo (Napoléon 1769–1969)

1969

16mm film (black and white, silent)

3 min.



La Pluie (Projet pour un texte) (The rain [Project for a text])

1969

16mm film (black and white, silent)

2 min.



Échelle de briques (Brick ladder)

1969

Wooden ladder, bricks, glue, paint, and cement

90 9/16 × 21 5/8 × 15 3/4" (230 × 55 × 40 cm)



Invitation to Marcel Broodthaers à la Deblioudebliou/S, Exposition

littéraire autour de Mallarmé (Marcel Broodthaers at WWS, Literary

exhibition concerning Mallarmé), Wide White Space Gallery,

Antwerp, December 2–20, 1969

1969

Offset lithograph

4 3/16 × 6 5/16" (10.7 × 16 cm)




Cahier (Exercise book)

1970-71

Artist's book. Pen in notebook, 116 pages, with pen and

cut-and-pasted 100 deutsche mark note on envelope


x 5 3/4 x 1/4" (20.6 x 14.6 x 0.6 cm)







Untitled (General with Cigar)1970

Found oil painting and cigar

15 3/4 x 11 13/16 x 2 3/4" (40 x 30 x 7 cm)







Ensemble d’objets avant figurer au 12 Burgplatz Düsseldorf

(Théorie des figures) (Group of objects shown at 12 Burgplatz

Düsseldorf [Theory of figures])

1970–71

Mixed-medium installation

Dimensions variable

Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach


Pelle (Shovel)

1970

Wallpaper on painted shovel

44 1/2 x 8 1/4 x 1 3/8" (113 x 21 x 3.5 cm)

Pinault Collection



Lingot (Ingot)

1971

Gold kilobar with artist's mint marks and stamp

Approx. 4 1/2 × 2 × 3/8" (11.5 × 5.1 × 0.9 cm)

Département des Aigles

Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)Handwritten contract regarding the sale of one kilo bar of fine gold 1971Pen on paperEach: 8 7/8 × 8 1/4" (22.5 × 21 cm)Private collection, Brussels


Ma collection (My collection)

1971

Invitations, printed sheets, publications, gelatin silver prints,

maquettes, and manuscripts, with paint, pen, and pencil, mounted

on both sides of two boards

Each: 37 3/8 × 23 5/8" (95 × 60 cm)

Frame (each): 40 9/16 × 26 3/4 × 1 3/8" (103 × 68 × 3.5 cm)

Eric Decelle, Bruxelles


Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)Page one of three-page letter to Joseph Beuys

September 25, 1972

photocopy

11 11/16 × 8 5/16" (29.7 × 21.1 cm)



Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)Page two of three-page letter to Joseph Beuys

September 25, 1972

photocopy

11 11/16 × 8 5/16" (29.7 × 21.1 cm)



Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976)Page three of three-page letter to Joseph Beuys

September 25, 1972

photocopy

11 11/16 × 8 5/16" (29.7 × 21.1 cm)




Museum–Museum

1972

Two screenprints

composition: 33 x 46 1/2" (83.9 x 118.2 cm); sheet (each): 33 x

23 1/4" (83 x 59.1 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Associates Fund, 1991



Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus

1972

Offset lithograph

composition (irreg.): 23 5/8 x 57 5/8" (60 x 146.4 cm); sheet: 27

9/16 x 60 11/16" (70 x 154.2 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Art & Project/Depot VBVR Gift, 2007


Série anglaise (English series) 1972

Letterpress on nine unstretched, primed canvasesEach 31 15/16 x 39 13/16 x 1 3/16" (81.2 x 101.1 x 3 cm)







Musée–Museum

1972

Offset lithograph with three postcards

composition (irreg.): 17 x 29 1/16" (43.2 x 73.8 cm); sheet: 19 7/8

x 29 1/2" (50.5 x 75 cm)







Musée–Museum

1972

Offset lithograph with two postcards

composition (irreg.): 17 x 29 1/16" (43.2 x 73.8 cm); sheet: 19 7/8

x 29 1/2" (50.5 x 75 cm)








Section Publicité du Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des

Aigles (Publicity section of the Museum of modern art,

Department of eagles)

1972

Installation with wood, bronze, painted vacuum-formed plastic

plate, vitrines, slide projections, pins, reproductions, and fire

extinguisher

Overall: 236 1/4 × 167 5/16 × 114 3/16" (600 × 425 × 290 cm)

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Acquired in 1999, with the

support of the Ernst von Siemens Art-Kunstfonds


Série en langue française (Série de neuf peintures sur un sujet

littéraire) (Series in the French language [Series of nine paintings

on a literary subject])

1972

Letterpress on nine unstretched, primed canvases

Each: 31 7/8 x 39 3/8" (81 x 100 cm)



A Architect

c.1972

Gouache on wallpaper

33 1/16 × 21 5/8" (84 × 55 cm)

Collection Lilott & Erik Berganus


Gedicht: Gedicht Poem Poème, Change Exchange Wechsel1973

Two screenprintscomposition (each): 37 9/16 x 25 1/4" (95.4 x 64.2 cm); sheet

(each): 38 1/2 x 26 13/16" (97.8 x 68.1 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, Riva Castleman Endowment Fund, 2005



Miroir d’époque régence (Regency mirror)

1973

Convex mirror in gilded wood frame

55 7/8 x 30 7/16 x 20 1/2" (142 x 77.3 x 52 cm)

Collection S.M.A.K, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent,

Belgium


Série de neuf peintures en langue allemande: Die Welt (Series of

nine paintings in the German language: The world)

1973

Letterpress on nine unstretched, primed canvases

Each: 31 1/2 x 39 3/8" (80 x 100 cm)



Analyse d'une peinture

1973

16mm film (color, silent)

2 min.



Panneau A (Panel A)

1974–1975

Gelatin silver prints, chromogenic color prints, and acrylic on

painted wooden panel

68 x 99 x 2 1/2" (172.7 x 251.5 x 6.4 cm)

Kravis Collection



P

1974

Painted plaster, painted wood, stencil, and walnuts

Vitrine: 39 × 48 × 27" (99.1 × 121.9 × 68.6 cm)

Eight parts, largest disc: 13 1/2 × 12 1/4" (34.3 × 31.1 cm)

Kravis Collection


Éloge du sujet (In praise of the subject)

1974

Objects and printed labels in display case, framed print, and paint

box

large case: 36 1/4 × 57 1/2 × 38 3/16" (92.1 × 146 × 97 cm)

paint box: 2 1/8 × 12 × 8 3/8" (5.4 × 30.5 × 21.2 cm)

framed print: 14 5/16 × 20 3/16 × 5/16" (36.3 × 51.2 × 0.8 cm)

MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium. Herbig long-term loan


Un jardin d’hiver (ABC) (A winter garden [ABC])

1974

35mm film (color, sound) transferred to 16mm film

6 min.



Tapis de Sable (Sand carpet)

1974

Quartz sand, pigments, palm in pot, printed terry cloth

Kentia palm: 77 15/16 x 63 x 23 5/8" (198 x 160 x 60 cm)

Sand carpet: 132 11/16 x 86 5/8" (337 x 220 cm)

Bathing towel: 42 1/8 x 20 5/8" (107 x 52.4 cm)

Collection Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven



Un Jardin d'hiver II (A winter garden II)

1974

Six photographs of nineteenth-century etchings, seventeen painted

chairs, thirty potted palms, 16mm film projected on screen

Dimensions variable



L'Entrée de l'exposition (The entry to the exhibition)

1974

Installation

Panel A: 52 3/4 × 41 13/16 × 7/8" (134 × 106.2 × 2.3 cm)

Photographs, each: 15 1/2 × 18 3/8 × 1 1/8" (39.3 × 46.7 × 2.8

cm)

Tractatus Logico-Catalogicus: 27 9/16 × 60 11/16" (70 × 154.2

cm)

Museum-Museum, each print: 32 11/16 × 23 1/4" (83 × 59.1 cm)

Gedicht Poem Poème Change Exchange Wechsel, each print: 38

1/2 × 26 13/16" (97.8 × 68.1 cm)

Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht


Catalogue for Moules OEufs Frites Pots Charbon (Mussels, eggs,

fries, pots, coal), Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp, May

26–June 26, 1966 [revised edition]1974

Offset lithograph, twelve pages

Page: 7 7/8 × 5 7/16" (20 × 13.8 cm)


Catalogue for Moules OEufs Frites Pots Charbon (Mussels eggs

fries pots coal), Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp, May

26–June 26, 1966 [revised edition]

1974

offset, printed in black and red

Cover: 8 1/2 × 5 7/16" (21.6 × 13.8 cm)







Décor: A Conquest by Marcel Broodthaers

1975

Mixed-medium installation

Dimensions variable

Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London, and



La Salle blanche (The white room)

1975

Wood, photographs, light bulb, paint, and cord

153 9/16 x 132 5/16 x 259 1/16" (390 x 336 x 658 cm)

Centre Pompidou, Paris / Musée national d´art moderne, Centre

de création industrielle


The Ballad of a Star over Reading Gaol

1975

Oil on three canvases

Each (canvas): 63 × 39 3/8" (160 × 100 cm)

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands, formerly in the

Visser collection


Deux caisses (Two crates)

1975

Two wooden boxes with wallpaper

Component: 111 7/16 × 32 1/2 × 30 1/2" (283 × 82.5 × 77.5 cm)

Component: 32 11/16 × 33 1/4 × 7 1/16" (83 × 84.5 × 18 cm)

Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York



La Conquête de l'espace, Atlas à l'usage des artistes et des

militaires (The conquest of space, Atlas for the use of artists and

the military)

1975

Artist's book. Offset lithograph, thirty-eight pages with slipcase overall: 1 5/8 x 1 1/8 x 3/8" (4.2 x 2.9 x 1 cm)







La Conquête de l'espace, Atlas à l'usage des artistes et des

militaires (The conquest of space, Atlas for the use of artists and

the military)

1975

Artist's book. Offset lithograph, thirty-eight pages with slipcase overall: 1 5/8 x 1 1/8 x 3/8" (4.2 x 2.9 x 1 cm)


Stéphane Mallarmé (French, 1842–1898)Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard1914Bookpage (each): 12 5/8 x 9 13/16" (32 x 25 cm); overall (closed): 12 15/16 x 10 3/16 x 3/8" (32.9 x 25.8 x 1 cm)Partial gift of the Daled Collection and partial purchase through the generosity of Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Agnes Gund, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, and Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, 2011

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