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Hans Haacke
Oil Painting: Homage to Marcel Broodthaers (Öelgemälde, Hommage à Marcel Broodthaers)1982

Not on view
Color photograph of a gallery installation: a framed painted portrait of an older man on a brick-red wall, flanked by gold stanchions with a red velvet rope
Large-scale black and white photographic mural installed on a gallery wall, framed within oversized film strip sprocket holes and frame numbers. Aerial view of a dense crowd filling an urban street canyon, many carrying signs and banners. A red runner extends from the base of the mural across the wood floor toward the viewer.
Gelatin silver print showing full film frame with sprocket holes; aerial view of a dense crowd filling a urban street canyon, carrying banners and protest signs reading 'Disarm Now,' 'Swords into Plowshares,' and 'No Nuclear Madness,' receding toward a distant vanishing point between tall city buildings.

Hans Haacke, Oil Painting: Homage to Marcel Broodthaers (Öelgemälde, Hommage à Marcel Broodthaers), 1982, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of The Broad Art Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Hans Haacke
Germany, Cologne, active United States, New York, New York City, born 1936
Title
Oil Painting: Homage to Marcel Broodthaers (Öelgemälde, Hommage à Marcel Broodthaers)
Place Made
Germany
Date Made
1982
Medium
Oil on canvas, stanchions with velvet rope, red carpet, photo mural
Dimensions
Installation: 17 3/8 × 348 in. (44.2 × 883.92 cm) .1) Photo negative: 8 × 10 in. (20.32 × 25.4 cm) .2) Oil painting frame: 35 1/2 × 29 1/2 × 3 in. (90.17 × 74.93 × 7.62 cm) .3a-b) Stanchion height: 39 in. (99.06 cm) .3a-b) Stanchion diameter: 12 in. (30.48 cm) .3c) Rope length: 73 in. (185.42 cm) .4a) Long red carpet: 345 × 36 in. (876.3 × 91.44 cm) .4b) Short red carpet: 112 × 36 in. (284.48 × 91.44 cm) .5) Painting light: 5 1/4 × 8 × 5 1/2 in. (13.34 × 20.32 × 13.97 cm) .6) Brass plaque: 5 1/2 × 12 in. (13.97 × 30.48 cm) DVD: 5 × 4 in. (12.7 × 10.16 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of The Broad Art Foundation
Accession Number
M.2001.63.1-.6
Classification
Collages
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Barron, Stephanie; Zelevansky; Crow, Thomas; Eckmann; Joanne Heyler and Pepe Karmel. Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001.
  • 1989, Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft? Nurnberg: Verlag fur moderne Kunst, 2009.
  • Molesworth, Helen. This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; New Haven, Conn.: In association with Yale University Press, 2012.
  • Schwartz, Stephanie. "Revolution and After." October 158 (2016): 126-154.