The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Bateau-Tableau

Bateau-Tableau

1973
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Working primarily as a poet until the age of 40, Marcel Broodthaers often incorporated language and word play into his visual art.

Description

Bateau-Tableau’s object of study is a 19th-century naval painting that the artist purchased in a Paris antiques shop. After the first slide displays the artwork, the following slides explore the painting through a series of successive close-ups. As the recognizable picture dissolves, we focus instead on the varied textures of paint on the work’s surface, the weave of the canvas, and the nails that hold the canvas to the wooden stretcher bars. An image becomes an object.
  • 2016
    (Cayre Art Group, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2016–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Liebert, Emily. “A Painting Is a Sculpture.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 23. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 23.
  • Renée Green: Contact. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-December 31, 2022) https://www.mocacleveland.org/reneegreen-contact.
    Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
  • {{cite web|title=Bateau-Tableau|url=false|author=Marcel Broodthaers|year=1973|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2016.300