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592 - The restoration. Assembly, metal, felt and gouache, 23.
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Estimate €3,000 - €4,000
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The restoration. Assembly, metal, felt and gouache, 23.0 x 33.0 x 5.8 cm (frame), signed and dated, titled and dated "22-12-1975" on reverse. - With this tin of sardines depicting a king on his throne, Mariën plays on the double meaning of the word 'restoration': the political meaning and the food sense. - Exhibitions: - - "Marcel Mariën. MINIMES d'une part, OBJETS ÉPERDUS de l'autre", Knokke, Galerie Plan, 22 May 1976 - 7 June 1976, no. 56. - Marcel Mariën. Van nu en toen 1981-1939", Antwerp, Kunsthandel Ronny Van de Velde, 13 February - 29 March 1981, no. 37. - L'Activité surréaliste en Belgique de 1924 à 1950", Hambourg, January - March 1982. - René Magritte et le surréalisme en Belgique", Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 24 September - 5 December 1982, n° 223 (reproduced in the catalogue p.271). - Reproduced in "Marcel Mariën. Rétrospective des rétrospectives", Brussels/Paris, Galerie Isy Brachot, 1989/1990, p.71. - Prov. Marcel Mariën (double etiq.).
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