Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard (A Throw of the Dice will Never Eliminate Chance)

1969

Marcel Broodthaers, with text by Stéphane Mallarmé

Associated Names
Marcel Broodthaers

Artist, Belgian, 1924 - 1976

Stéphane Mallarmé

Author, French, 1842 - 1898

Wide White Space Gallery

Publisher

Michael Werner Gallery

Publisher

This is a photograph of a book or document cover. The cover is off-white with a centered title and several lines of text above and below it. The title reads "UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS N’ABOLIRA LE HASARD" in bold red font, with the word "IMAGE" in smaller black text underneath. "MARCEL BROODTHAERS" is written in capital black letters above the title. The cover is framed by a thin red and black border. At the bottom, there are references to two galleries: "GALERIE WIDE WHITE SPACE ANTWERPEN" and "GALERIE MICHAEL WERNER KÖLN."
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume of 30 unnumbered pages with offset lithography, on translucent paper with ivory wove binding, and two separable blank cards

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Collectors Committee

  • Dimensions

    overall (closed): 32.54 × 24.92 × 0.32 cm (12 13/16 × 9 13/16 × 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.68.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(J.P.G. Grosfeld, Amsterdam); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1982

  • Michael Werner Gallery. Marcel Broodthaers: Catalogue des Livres 1957-1975 = Catalogue of Books 1957-1975 = Katalog der Bücher 1957-1975. Cologne, 1982, no. 8.

Inscriptions

in black ink on colophon page: Ex. No [o underlined] 11. / M.B.

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