Marcel BROODTHAERS. Letter to his friends. Kassel,... Lot 50

Marcel BROODTHAERS. Letter to his friends. Kassel, June 27, 68. Typed letter stencil on laid paper, 1 page in-4. Second letter to his friends, written in Kassel, the day of the opening of the Documenta IV. It comes back on the previous letter: ... Do not read in my letter of June 7, 68: - You must not feel sold before the purchase - But read: You must not feel sold after the purchase - This, in order to satisfy the ass and the father of each. My friends, who is Warhol? And Lamelas? The artist also refers to the Black Flag plaque. "Obviously, as in so many subsequent cases, Broodthaers's literal reversal of a position he had just pronounced does not derive from an attitude of irony [...]. Rather it constitutes the public performance of an opportunistic revision of a moralistic position that had come to appear as no longer tenable. Broodthaers recognized this element of opportunism as an inextricable condition of adaptation to the reality of artistic production" (Buchloh, ibid., p. 84). Traces of folds. (WIELS, p. 77. MOURE, p. 191.)