Marcel Broodthaers - Le Salon noir (1966) - 1988





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Marcel Broodthaers is the author of Le Salon noir (1966), a French-language 18-page soft-cover art book, 23 × 21 cm, published in 1988 in a limited edition of 500 copies.
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Foreword by Marcel Piqueray in French and Flemish.
Four black-and-white photographs by Georges Thiry, Philippe de Gobert and Maria Gilissen from Broodthaers' Salon Noir, made in 1966 in homage to Marcel Lecomte.
An installation created in 1966, at once a menhir, a sarcophagus, and a surrealist memorial, it anticipates the death of the poet and friend, who was alive at the time of its creation.
Photograph of Marcel Lecomte and Broodthaers smoking in the frontispiece.
Original edition published by Galerie Ronny Van de Velde in Antwerp in 1988.
Limited edition of 500 copies.
No delivery to the United States due to the new legislation.
Foreword by Marcel Piqueray in French and Flemish.
Four black-and-white photographs by Georges Thiry, Philippe de Gobert and Maria Gilissen from Broodthaers' Salon Noir, made in 1966 in homage to Marcel Lecomte.
An installation created in 1966, at once a menhir, a sarcophagus, and a surrealist memorial, it anticipates the death of the poet and friend, who was alive at the time of its creation.
Photograph of Marcel Lecomte and Broodthaers smoking in the frontispiece.
Original edition published by Galerie Ronny Van de Velde in Antwerp in 1988.
Limited edition of 500 copies.
No delivery to the United States due to the new legislation.

