Hans Haacke, poster for the Manet-Project

Cologne, Galerie Paul Maenz, 1974. Offset printed b/w, 84 x 60 cm, folded to 29.5 x 21 cm. Slight age wear to edges, but generally in good condition.

Elaborates on the censorship of Haacke’s contribution to PROJEKT ’74 at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne. The artist traced the provenance of the museum’s recent acquisition of the Manet painting ‘A bundle of asparagus’ (1880), exposing the Nazi-era career of the donator of the work, Herman Abs, a German banker, philanthropist and chairman of the museum board. The painting was likely stolen from the previous Jewish owners.