A stamped plastic plate serves as the unexpected canvas for Marcel Broodthaers' *Le Drapeau Noir (The Black Flag)*, where black acrylic paint is applied over an industrially produced surface. The work reflects Broodthaers' characteristic interrogation of systems of meaning, merging the anarchic symbolism of the black flag with the mundane language of mass-produced objects. The tension between the readymade substrate and the painted gesture blurs the boundaries between institutional critique, political iconography, and conceptual art.