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Property from an Important Private American Collection

MARCEL BROODTHAERS | PEINTURE A L'OEUF

Lot Closed

October 22, 01:51 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private American Collection

MARCEL BROODTHAERS

1924 - 1976

PEINTURE A L'OEUF


signed with the artist's initials, dated Noël 66 and dedicated on the reverse

oil and painted eggshells on canvas

100 by 69.9 cm. 39⅞ by 27½ in.

109.2 by 78.5 cm. 43 by 31 in.


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Gallerie Cogeime, Brussels

Private Collection, Brussels (acquired from the above)

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above in 1989)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Brussels, Galerie Cogeime, Peinture à l'oeuf - Peinture à l'oeuf, September - October 1966

Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Marcel Broodthaers 1924 - 1976, January - June 1982 

New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Marcel Broodthaers, November 1984, n.p. illustrated in colour

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts; and Marcel Broodthaers, April 1989 - June 1990

Paris, Galerie nationale du jeu de Paume; and Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Marcel Broodthaers, December 1991 - June 1992, p. 98, illustrated in colour

New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, 30/40 Part II, October - November 2007