UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS N’ABOLIRA LE HASARD. IMAGE
Broodthaers Marcel, UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS N’ABOLIRA LE HASARD. IMAGE  (Antwerp: Wide white Space, Cologne: Galerie Michael Werner, 1969).
Marcel Broodthaers
UN COUP DE DÉS JAMAIS N’ABOLIRA LE HASARD. IMAGE
Antwerp: Wide White Space, 1969, Cologne: Galerie Michael Werner, 1969
500 x 320 mm, 12
anodized aluminium,
ed. 10 copies

"On 25th November 1969, in Antwerp, this picture was printed in 10 copies on anodized aluminium, numbered I to X and 90 copies on translucent paper numbered from 1 to 90. All comprising a first edition. The model of this approximate picture is the first edition of the poem 'Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard' by Stéphane Mallarmé, published in 1914 by Librairie Gallimard. The copies on translucent paper have two cards cut to the size of the page which the reader can use to mask one or two pages of his choice. As well as the first edition, a 'catalogue' edition of 300 copies was also printed on opaque paper."