Musée d'Art Moderne a Vendre pour Cause de Faillite.
Köln: Galerie Michael Werner, 1971. Limited Edition. Folio. Another mise-en-abyme structure from Broodthaers, produced as one of the final installments—i.e. the Section Financière—to his conceptual Musée d'Art Moderne cycle (1968-1972). For the 1971 edition of the Köln Kunstmarkt catalogue, Broodthaers was granted a take-over of the Galerie Michael Werner spread, designing a fire-sale advertisement for his imaginary modern art museum, "for reasons of bankruptcy." To complete this time-based work, Broodthaers then offered a limited edition of the appropriated catalogue at Werner's gallery in Cologne (Nov. 8–13), each of these copies wrapped in a Broodthaers-designed dustjacket—mimicking the design of his advertisement within, albeit with the names of Werner's represented artists replaced by a group of 19 honorary "eagles" curated by Broodthaers: e.g. Baudelaire, Hugo, Buster Keaton, Magritte, Edgar Allan Poe, Rothko, Schwitters, Jonathan Swift. A fine copy of the catalogue. Minor some scuffing to white printed jacket; close to fine. This copy unsigned; of the purported 19 copies from this edition, our research reveals that only six of them include inscriptions from Broodthaers—addressed to individual eagles—with another six unsigned. Scarce outside of museum collections, with no OCLC records located.
Item #29266
Price: $35,000.00