
Les animaux de la ferme (The Farm Animals)
Marcel Broodthaers' 'Les animaux de la ferme' (The Farm Animals) is a published print series with artist's proofs, numbered II/XX by Edition Staeck in Heidelberg. The work reflects Broodthaers' conceptual approach to art production and distribution.
- Medium
- One signed with initials, dated and annotated 'e.a.' in pencil, both numbered 'II/XX' in pencil (an artist proof, the edition was 100), published by Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, Germany, both framed.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Evening & Day Editions
September 21, 2023
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Artists in conversation

Joseph Kosuth
American · b. 1945

Kosuth's text based conceptual prints and multiples share Broodthaers' interest in language as art object and the institutional framing of meaning, producing numbered editions that interrogate representation itself.

Ed Ruscha
American · b. 1937

Ruscha's screenprints combining deadpan text with everyday imagery echo the playful yet conceptually rigorous approach Broodthaers brings to farm animals and printed multiples distributed through artist editions.

Klaus Staeck
German · b. 1938

Staeck, who actually published this very edition through Edition Staeck Heidelberg, creates monochrome text based screenprint multiples with whimsical political wit that directly parallels the conceptual print language Broodthaers employed here.
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