Marcel Broodthaers - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, October 11, 2024 | Phillips
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    • Provenance

      Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      Berlin, Gerda Bassenge and Benjamin Katz Gallery, Broodthaers, March-April 1969 (another example exhibited)
      Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume; Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Marcel Broodthaers, 17 December 1991-8 June 1992, p. 320 (another example of Académie I illustrated; another example of Académie II exhibited and illustrated, p. 135)
      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. 235)

    • Literature

      Gloria Moure, ed., Marcel Broodthaers: Collected Writings, Barcelona, 2012, p. 193 (another example illustrated)
      Wilfried Dickhoff and Bernard Marcade, Marcel Broodthaers,​ London, 2013, p. 139 (another example of Académie I illustrated), p. 141 (installation view of another example illustrated)
      Charlotte Friling and Dirk Snauwaert, eds., Marcel Broodthaers: industrial Poems: The Complete Catalogue of the Plaques, 1968-1972, Berlin, 2021, nos. 1.a, 1.b, pp. 12, 277 (another example exhibited and illustrated, pp. 56, 57, 62, 276, 278, 279 and the overleaf)

Property from The Herbig Collection

169

Two works: (i) Académie I, (ii) Académie II

painted vacuum formed plastic plate, in two parts
each 86.5 x 120.4 cm (34 x 47 3/8 in.)
Executed in 1968, this work is number 5 from an edition of 7.

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

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 11 October 2024