herman de vries art catalogue

journal of a visit to the island of samos

catalogue number:	hdv 2013.031.2
date created:	2013
classification:	journals & sketchbooks
work type:	journal
medium:	mixed media (artefacts, earth/soil, stones & pebbles, wood, vegatation, photographs), collected in October 2013 during a stay on the island of Samos - Greece, on paper/board
dimensions:	46 + 1 (title page) panels, each panel (framed) 36 × 26 cm installed dimensions 147 × 239 cm
signature and inscriptions:	titled 'journal of a visit to the island of samos', signed and dated on the title page (graphite pencil) titled [see 'extended description'] and signed (with initial) on the front of each part
edition:

current repository:	Domaine des Etangs, Massignac (private collection, Geneva)
current repository number:
collecting history:	acquired through Cortesi Gallery, Lugano/Milan
related works:
comment:
photo/scan:	studio herman de vries/Joana Schwender
rights & reproduction:	herman de vries

extended description

1st row, from left to right:

1. title page

2-6. uninscribed

7. 'coll.: above neochori 2.10.2013'

8. 'pyrus elaeagrifatia. coll.: between mytilini[i] & kokkari 3.10.2013'

9. uninscribed

10-11. 'coll.: above kervélis 4.10.2013'

12. 'coll.: from a burned house, above kervélis 4.10.2013'

2nd row, from left to right:

13-14. 'coll.: above kervélis 4.10.2013'

15. '4.10.2013'

16-18. uninscribed

19. 'quercus cossifera. coll.: above kervélis 5.10.2013'

20. 'quercus infectoria. coll.: between mytilini[i] & kokkari 2.10.2013'

21. 'quercus pubescens. coll.: glifo 13.10.2013'

22. '[...] communis / coll.: above pos[s]idonio 5.10.2013

23. 'over pos[s]idonio 5.10.2013'

24. 'cheilanthes marantae; ceterach officinarum. on stone wall above pos[s]idonio 5.10.2013'

3rd row, from left to right:

25. 'coll.: beach kervélis 5.10.2013coll.: plage d'agadir'

26. 'collected under the olive trees. over pos[s]idonio 5.10.2013'

27-28. 'coll.: above pos[s]idonio. cupressus sempervirens 5.10.2013'

29. 'coll.: from an olive garden between pos[s]idonio & grifo 5.10.2013'

30-31. 'coll.: from an olive garden, near pos[s]idonio 5.10.2013'

32. 'coll: sideras 6.10.2013''

33. 'piptatherum miliaceum - agia nicolaos 6.10.2014 [= 2013]'

34. 'coll.: beach iréo 6.10.2013'

35. 'coll.: beach between psili ammos and ag. nikolaos 7.10.2013'

36. 'coll.: beach pos[s]idonio 9.10.2013'

4th row, from left to right:

37. 'limonium meyeri. coll.: psili ammos 7.10.2013'

38. uninscribed

39. 'coll.: valeondádes 11.10.2013'

40. uninscribed

41 'vitex agnus castus valeondádas (nachtigallental) 11.10.2013'

42. 'valeondádas (nachtigallental) 11.10.2013'

43. 'valeondádas 11.10.2013'

44. 'over glifo 13.10.2013'

45. uninscribed

46. 'sidera[s] → glifo 13.10.2013'

47. 'coll.: near pos[s]idonio 14.10.2013'

exhibition history

2017	'herman de vries. the return of beauty', Cortesi Gallery, London

published references

exhibition catalogue	herman de vries. the return of beauty (Cortesi Gallery : Lugano/Milan/London 2017) image repr. on pages [52-53] (catalogue nr 16).
exhibition catalogue	herman de vries. all all all (Cortesi Gallery : Lugano/Milan/London 2018) image repr. on pages [34-35] (catalogue nr 6).