BROODTHAERS (Marcel). Lot n° 496

Meeting of 10 open letters. This set includes: 1. open letter, located and dated "Paris, November 29, 1968": "Dear friends, my coffers are empty. We are at the edge of the abyss (...)". 1 f. 4° of 27,5 x 21,5 cm, folded in 4 and printed in black. Red stamp in the upper left corner of the "Département des Aigles". In a stamped envelope addressed to F[rits] Keers of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.- 2. Open letter, located and dated "Antwerpen, May 10, 1969": "Dear friends, from Brussels to Antwerp there are about fifty kilometers. No time to think about this museum. I thought with brackets without words inside (...)". 1 f. 4° of 27,5 x 21,5 cm, folded in 4 and printed in black. In a stamped envelope addressed to F[rits] Keers of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.- 3. Open letter, located and dated "Lignano, August 27, 1968": "I first staged the objects of everyday reality, molds, eggs, jars, advertising images (...)". 1 f. 4° of 27,5 x 21,5 cm, folded in 4 and printed in black - 4. open letter, dated June 27, 1968 (Kassel): "A cube, a sphere, a pyramid obeying the laws of the sea (...)". 1 f. 4° of 27,5 x 21,5 cm, folded in 4 and printed in black on fine white laid paper - 5. Open letter, dated 7/6/68 (Palais des Beaux-Arts): "To my friends, calm and silence. A fundamental gesture, here, was made which throws a sharp light on the culture and the aspirations of some to its control (...)". 1 f. 4° of 27,5 x 21,5 cm, folded in 4 and printed in black on fine white laid paper - 6. Open letter addressed to "My dear Beuys", dated July 14, 1968: "God how difficult it was to say friend to a German when one was born on another land (...)". 1 f. 4° of 27,5 x 21,5 cm, folded in 4 and printed in black.- 7. Open letter printed in black to "My dear Kasper" dated May 9, 1969, on paper stamped "Department of the Eagles". 1 f. 4° of 27,5 x 21,5 cm, folded in 4 and printed in black.- 8. Open letter printed on the letterhead of the "Department of the Eagles", located and dated "Düsseldorf, September 19, 1968": "To play on the reality and its representation starting from an industrial technique. What reality? (...). 1 f. 4° of 27,5 x 21,5 cm, folded in 4 and printed in black. In a stamped envelope addressed to F[rits] Keers of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.- 9. Open letter addressed to "My Dear Lamelas" dated October 31, 1969, on letterhead of the "Museum of Modern Art. Literary section. Department of the Eagles". 1 f. 4° folded in 4, in an envelope with the same letterhead, stamped and addressed to F[rits] Keers of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Nice copy.- 10. Open letter, on the letterhead of the "Cabinet of Ministers of Culture", located and dated "Ostend, Sept. 7, 1968": "Ouverture. We have the pleasure to inform the customers and the curious ones of the inauguration of the Department of the Eagles of the Museum of Modern Art (...)". 1 f. 4° of 27,5 x 21,5 cm, folded in 4 and printed in black. Nice set.