Property of a Gentleman
Marcel Broodthaers
Huître Malade d’une Perle (Oyster sick with a pearl)
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October 23, 02:05 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Gentleman
Marcel Broodthaers
1924 - 1976
Huître Malade d’une Perle (Oyster sick with a pearl)
signed with the artist's initials and dated 1963 (on the reverse)
plastic ball, ice trays embedded in plaster and chalk on painted panel
70 x 70 x 12,1 cm; 27½ x 27½ x 4¾ in.
Executed in 1963 - 1968.
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Please note that the chalk inscription Xème was added by the artist to the painted black panel in 1968.
Galerie Saint Laurent, Brussels
Collection Duquenne, Brussels (acquired from the above)
Anny De Decker, Antwerp
Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris
Private Collection, Belgium (acquired from the above)
Marie-Puck Broodthaers, Basel (acquired from the above)
Peter Freeman Inc, New York
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 2022)
Brussels, Galerie Saint Laurent, Le retour… des choses, 10 - 25 April 1964, illustrated on the invitation
Antwerp, Wide White Space Gallery, Marcel Broodthaers. Figures anciennes et modernes, 27 September - 27 October 1971
London, The Tate Gallery, Marcel Broodthaers, 16 April - 26 May 1980, p.77
Paris, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Nature morte, 1988
Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Centro Reina Sofia, Marcel Broodthaers, 17 December 1991 - 8 June 1992, p.62
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-arts; Bonn, Kunstmuseum; Marseille, MAC, Musée d’Art Contemporain, White Wide Space : Une histoire de l’art des années 60/70, 1994 - 1996, p.279
Lisbon, Fundação das Descobertas/Centro Cultural de Belém, The Pop '60s: Travessia transatlântica/Transatlantic Crossing, 11 September - 17 November 1997
Kassel, Museum Friedericianum, Marcel Broodthaers, 17 July 2025 - 15 November 2015, p.62
Brussels, ING Art Center, Pop Art In Belgium, 15 October 2015 - 14 January 2016, pl. 20, p.114, illustrated in colour
Marcel Broodthaers, Marie-Puck, et al. Marcel Broodthaers Livre d’Images. Paris 2013, p. 51