| 1985 | 'herman de vries', Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart |
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collected august 1977
| catalogue number: | hdv 1977.081. |
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| date created: | 1977 |
| classification: | editions & publications |
| work type: | collage series |
| medium: | on the first sheet handwritten title, author and edition (black ink) + stamp of the editor in red ink (the same stamp in black ink on the reverse of the wooden cover), followed by 7 sheets with dried plants, signed, dated and location where the plants are collected; in wooden box with 2 copper locks. The box includes also a small sheet of paper (7 × 10.3 cm) with a text in English by herman de vries from a dialogue between Hui-Chung and Ling-Chiao: "if there is not an iota of thing, / what is it to be named?" / "no name whatever for it" / "is there anything resembling it?" / "not a thing resembling it; / the world knows |
| dimensions: | each sheet 51 × 33 cm box 55.7 × 37.5 × 4.6 cm |
| signature and inscriptions: | titled 'collected august 1977', signed, dated and numbered on the title page (graphite pencil) each sheet identified on the reverse with the place of discovery (graphite pencil) text by herman de vries on a label (printed) |
| edition: | [edition artists press bern 1977]
edition 11, numbered 1/11 - 11/11 |
| current repository: | [3/11] collection herman and susanne de vries [5/11] private collection |
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| collecting history: | [4/11] Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart (K34) [5/11] 'Auktion 278 - Online only', Galerie Kornfeld Bern, 15 June 2023 (lot 1455) from the collection Urs (1934-2021) & Rös (1935-2020) Graf, Bern |
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| photo/scan: | courtesy Galerie Kornfeld, Bern |
| rights & reproduction: | herman de vries |
exhibition history
published references
| catalogue raisonné | herman de vries. les livres et les publications. catalogue raisonné / textes de herman de vries, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Didier Mathieu (Centre des livres d'artistes : Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche 2005) no image repr., 154 (catalogue number 41). |
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