Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976)

Details

Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976)

Selfportrait

glass pot with black and white photograph, sculpture
10.5 cm high

Executed in 1967

Provenance

Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussel

Literature

Freddy de Vree, Marcel Broodthaers: Oeuvres 1963-1975, Brussels 1990, p. 127 (ill.)
Maurice Peeters, L'Instant, "Marcel Broodthaers: l'envol de l'aigle, 26 December 1991, p. 58
Guy Tosatto e.a., L'Ivresse du Réel, l'Objet dans l'art du XXe siècle, Paris 1993, p. 121 (ill.), no. 130
Exh.cat. Le Portrait dans l'art contemporain 1945-1992, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art contemporain, Nice 1992, p. 83 (ill.)

Exhibited

Basel, Art 21'90, Galerie Isy Brachot, Marcel Broodthaers: Oeuvres de 1963-1975, 13 June - 18 June 1990
Namen, Maison de la culture, Autoportraits en Belgique depuis 1945, 23 April - 31 December 1991
Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Le Portrait dans l'art contemporain, 3 July - 27 September 1992
Nîmes, Musée d'Art Contemporain, L'Ivresse du Réel; L'Objet dans l'Art du XXe siècle, 7 May - 31 August 1993
Vienna, Wiener Secession, Real, 29 October - 15 December 1993

Lot Essay

From 1966 Broodthaers not only worked with household objects and food such as mossel and eggshells but introduced also preserve jars in his oeuvre. The use of this jars was motivated by a necessity of possession and preservation but also to establish a relationship between the object and the reproduction of that object, between a personality and his image.

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