Galerie D, Brussels, appears in Andy Warhol’s diary as both an exhibition venue and a crowded stop on a May 1977 visit. An art dealer was showing Warhol’s pictures there; he signed autographs and books amid a mob, and 120 items were sold. The episode ends not with the orderly departure he expected, but with a long wait beside an unattended car.

Exhibition and Public Appearance

On May 26, 1977, Warhol traveled from Paris to Brussels by train, checked into Hotel Brussels, and hurried to Galerie D. The art dealer Mr. LeBruin greeted the party on arrival in Brussels, and Galerie D was the destination for the showing of Warhol’s pictures. There, Warhol was surrounded by a crowd and stood in a corner signing autographs and books. The diary records 120 sales, making the visit a substantial public encounter as well as an exhibition stop.

The Departure

After the appearance, Warhol expected to leave quickly in a chauffeured Chevrolet. Instead, the party found no driver in the seat. A young person offered him an ice-cream cone; when Warhol declined, the cone was splattered across the car’s roof, and it dripped down the windows as the crowd laughed. The group remained there for twenty minutes before the chauffeur returned and explained that he had been away urinating.

Place in the Diary

The account sets the bustle of the gallery signing against the stalled departure outside: the crowd gathers around Warhol first as an audience for his work, then as onlookers to an unexpectedly undignified delay. Galerie D is therefore recorded less through architectural description than through what happened there and around the visit—pictures on view, signatures, sales, and the abrupt contrast between a planned, chauffeured exit and a car left waiting.