1972-10-02-1050

v72-105s random dot structure - random objectivation

catalogue number: 1972.011.27
date created: 1972
classification: works on paper
work type: drawing
medium: dots of five random sizes are placed at the intersections of a 3 × 3 cm grid; black ink on board
dimensions: 73 × 102 cm
signature and inscriptions: titled 'random dot structure - random objectivation', signed and work number 'v72-105s', a label Galleria Milano, Milan and an illegible stamp on the reverse (graphite pencil)
edition:
current repository: unknown
current repository number:
collecting history: 'Modern Art, Tribal Art, and 20th Century Furniture', Native Auctions, Brussels, 9 June 2026 (lot 79)
private collection, Antwerp
'drawings', Bernaerts Auctioneers, Antwerp, 29 May 2019 (lot 1257)
collection Cees de Boer, Amsterdam
Witteveen Gallery, Amsterdam
Galleria Milano, Milan
related works:
comment: created in collaboration with susanne jacob de vries (s)
photo/scan:
rights & reproduction: herman de vries/© Native Auctions, Brussels
exhibition history
1972 'Programmi Sistematici. Ad Dekkers, Ewerdt Hilgemann, Jan Schoonhoven, Peter Struycken, Herman de Vries', Galleria Milano, Milan [group]
1975 'herman de vries. random shapes', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
published references
monograph 'herman de vries', in Jean Leering, Programmi sistematici. Ricerca contemporanea 4 (Vanni Scheiwiller : Milano 1975) image repr. on page [195].
exhibition catalogue herman de vries. random shapes (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam : Amsterdam 1975) no image repr. (catalogue number 33).
exhibition catalogue herman de vries. toevalstekeningen = random objectivations (Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo 2015) no image repr., 72.