Musée d'Art Moderne a Vendre pour Cause de Faillite

Köln: Galerie Michael Werner, 1971. 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.. 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.