Panneau de Moules (Panel of Mussels), 1966

Not on View

Medium

mussel shells, resin, and paint on panel

Dimensions

overall: 116.21 × 121.92 × 13.97 cm, 155 lb. (45 3/4 × 48 × 5 1/2 in., 70.308 kg)

Credit Line

Gift of the Collectors Committee

Accession Number

2005.36.1

Artists / Makers

Marcel Broodthaers (artist) Belgian, 1924 - 1976

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Provenance

Acquired from the artist by family members, Mr. and Mrs. Toussaint Gilissen, Duren, Germany, by 1989. private collection, Belgium; purchased 5 April 2005 through (Peter Freeman, Inc., New York) by NGA.

Associated Names

Peter Freeman, Inc.
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)
Private Collection (NGA Former Owner)

Exhibition History

1966: Possibly Marcel Broodthaers, Galerie J, Paris, 1966.

1966: Possibly Moules Oeufs Frites Pots Charbon, Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp, 1966.

1989: Marcel Broodthaers, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1989-1990, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2014: Make it New: Abstract Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2014, unnumbered catalogue.

2016: Marcel Broodthaers: A Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, 2016-2017.

Bibliography

2001: Clerbois, Sébastien. "Marcel Broodthaers ou la jouissance de l'hystérique?" Arts Antiques Auctions 2001: 31, repro.