MARCEL BROODTHAERS (1924-1976)
Les animaux de la ferme (The Farm Animals)
(i) signed with the artist's initials, numbered and dated '4/100 M.B. 74' (upper right)
(ii) numbered and dated '1974 4/120' (along the lower edge)
colour offset lithograph on paper, in two parts
each: 32⅛ x 23⅝in. (82 x 60.3cm.)
Executed in 1974, this work is number four from an edition of one hundred

Provenance:
Edition Staeck, Berlin.
Private Collection, Belgium.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Marcel Broodthaers, 1991-1992 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 257).

Literature:
Marcel Broodthaers, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Centre, 1989 (illustrated in colour, pp. 154-155).
Marcel Broodthaers. Het Volledig Grafisch Werk en de Boeken, Galerie Jos Jamar, Knokke-Duinbergen 1989, no. 21 (another from the edition illustrated, pp. 62-63).
Marcel Broodthaers Katalog der Editionen Graphik und Bücher Catalogue of the Editions Prints and Books Catalogue des Editions L'Oeuvre Graphique et les Livres, Hannover 1996 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 47).

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