by Marcel et Marie-Puck BROODTHAERS
around 1971
Original drawing in colored marker and pencil (69 × 87 cm), under glass.
Very large drawing with four hands in pencil and brown, yellow, red and orange marker, signed in green marker "Marie-Puck Broodthaers 9 years old", in the upper left corner.
It represents a crowned eagle, wings spread on a branch, adjoined, on either side, by two miniature eagles.
We know the importance of the figure of the eagle, symbol of authority, in the work of Marcel Broodthaers – especially when he dedicated his Museum of Modern Art to it. In 1972, he was to carry out a major exhibition at the Kunsthalle der Düsseldorf around the figure of the Eagle, made up of 300 paintings, objects and sculptures (Der Adler vom Oligozän bis heute).
