
Not on display
- Artist
- Marcel Broodthaers 1924–1976
- Original title
- La Soupe de Daguerre
- Medium
- Screenprint and 12 photographs, colour, on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 530 × 520 mm
frame: 540 × 525 × 30 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1977
- Reference
- P07214
Display caption
The title of this work refers to Louis Daguerre, one of the nineteenth-century inventors of photography. The soup concocted in his name is represented by a chart of its ingredients. However, these ingredients are themselves photographs, whether of 'real' vegetables or of fish made of tissue paper. A label presents the work as if it were a museum exhibit, implying that it belongs to the distant past, perhaps even to Daguerre's era. Although the soup can never be eaten, the photographic images survive in a state of pristine freshness long after 'real' vegetables would have rotted away.
Gallery label, September 2004
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