Décor: A Conquest is the culmination of the Marcel Broodthaers' life's work, building on themes explored in earlier décors, a term the artist used to describe a number of his late works. As Marcel Broodthaers remarked, speaking of himself in the third-person: In January 1974, Marcel Broodthaers installed a conservatory in one of the rooms of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels: a few dozen palm trees, some folding garden chairs, natural history engravings...For him, this first achievement heralded the idea for Décor: A Conquest...