Lot 184
  • 184

Marcel Mariën

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 EUR
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Description

  • Marcel Mariën
  • La contemporaine du ciel bleu
  • signed marcel mariën and inscribed (Collage de MCMXLV intitulé pour la circonstance mil neuf cent soixante-seizième: "La contemporaine du ciel bleu") (lower right)
  • collage on paper
  • 18.2 x 24.2 cm; 7 1/8 x 9 1/2 in.

Provenance

Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
Chantal and Guy Heytens, Monaco (and sold: Sotheby's, Paris, July 3, 2007, lot 112)
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt

Exhibited

Milan, Palazzo Reale, I Surrealisti, 1989, ilustrated in the catalogue p. 489
Brussels, Galerie Isy Brachot; Paris, Galerie Isy Brachot, Marcel Mariën, Rétrospective des rétrospectives, 1989-90, illustrated in the catalogue p. 27 (French edition)

Condition

Collage on cream wove paper, the elements are stable and intact. The lower edge is deckled. There is discolouration to the edges consistent with previous mounting. There is a faint stain, possibly original, towards the lower left corner. Otherwise this work is in very good condition.
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