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Le drapeau noir, tirage illimité (The Black Flag, Unlimited Edition)
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Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976)
Le drapeau noir, tirage illimité (The Black Flag, Unlimited Edition)
signed with the artist's initials, inscribed and dated 'A Peter u ..... LEUVEN MB 68' (on the reverse)
enamel on vacuum-formed plastic relief
33 ¼ x 47 ¾in. (84.6 x 121.4cm.)
Executed in 1968, this work is from an unlimited edition
Le drapeau noir, tirage illimité (The Black Flag, Unlimited Edition)
signed with the artist's initials, inscribed and dated 'A Peter u ..... LEUVEN MB 68' (on the reverse)
enamel on vacuum-formed plastic relief
33 ¼ x 47 ¾in. (84.6 x 121.4cm.)
Executed in 1968, this work is from an unlimited edition
Provenance
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels.
Anon. sale, Christie’s Amsterdam, 7 December 1994, lot 540.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Anon. sale, Christie’s Amsterdam, 7 December 1994, lot 540.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
B. H. D. Buchloch, Neo-avantgarde and culture industry: essays on European and American art from 1955 to 1975, Cambridge MA 2000 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 90).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Marcel Broodthaers, 1992, p. 320 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 134). This exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Munich, Kunstraum München, Marcel Broodthaers, Objekte, Druckgraphik, Zeichnungen, Bücher, 1992 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 21). This exhibition later travelled to Hamburg, Raum für Kunst.
Munich, Kunstraum München, Marcel Broodthaers, Objekte, Druckgraphik, Zeichnungen, Bücher, 1992 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 21). This exhibition later travelled to Hamburg, Raum für Kunst.
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Further Details
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