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het SOHM BOEK

catalogue number: hdv 1978.081.2
date created: 1958-1972/1978
classification: editions & publications
work type: artist's publication
medium: portfolio in black lacquered wooden box with labeled cover containing 57 sheets with collages, prints, drawings and photographs in varying sizes, mounted on sheets of one size and placed in chronological order from 1958 til 1977. The last sheet contains an envelope of pergamin paper with postmark 2.2.78. In it a dried maple leaf with handwritten note; cover sheet of black clay paper with attached label (black ink) "het SOHM boek / herman de vries."
dimensions: each sheet 32.8 × 32.8 cm (with variable motif size)
cassette 35 × 35 × 7.5 cm
signature and inscriptions: signed and dated 'collected 31-10-'77 bern' on the last sheet (graphite pencil)
numbered 'SB', titled, signed and dated (irregular) on the white sheet on which the individual works are attached (graphite pencil)
edition: edition 1/1
current repository: collection Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
current repository number: AS 2016/2984
collecting history: collection Hanns Sohm, Markgröningen (gift of the artist)
related works:
comment: the book consists of the following works: see 'extended description'
photo/scan: © Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
rights & reproduction: herman de vries
extended description

SB 1a title page

SB 2 'wit/weiss' (signed on the reverse)

SB 3 [untitled (collage trouvé)]

SB 4 [untitled] (1959)

SB 5 [untitled] print 2/12 (1959)

SB 6 [untitled] (1960)

SB 7 [untitled] (1960)

SB 8 [untitled] (1960)

SB 9 [untitled (reflecties)] (1960)

SB 10 [untitled (homogeneous structure)] (1962)

SB 11 [untitled] (1961)

SB 12 [untitled] (1961)

SB 13 [untitled] (1961)

SB 14 radering multiple 10/10 (1961)

SB 15 [untitled] (1961)

SB 16 [untitled] (1961)

SB 17 [untitled] (1961)

SB 18 [untitled] (1961)

SB 19 random objectivation (1962)

SB 20 random objectivation (1962/63)

SB 21 random objectivation (1963)

SB 22 [untitled (wit op wit)] (1963)

SB 23 [untitled (yellow printing)] print 1/2 (1963)

SB 24 camp at random (1964)

SB 25 1 × at random (1964)

SB 26 1966/62 toevalsobjektivering (1966)

SB 27 v67-43 random objectivation (1967)

SB 28 v67-46 random objectivation (1967)

SB 29 v67-67 at random situated lines (1967)

SB 30 v67-71 randomised figure (1967)

SB 31 v67-72 randomised figure (1967)

SB 32 v68-79 random objectivation (1968)

SB 33 v68-234 random objectivation (1968)

SB 34 v69-09 random objectivation drawing 2/5 (1969)

SB 35-37 v69-32a-c (1969)

SB 38 handwritten text of 'let's be rational' (see additional images)

SB 39 v69-33 random objectivation (1969)

SB 40 v69-34 re-emotionalisering (1969)

SB 41-43 v69-36a-c eb en vloed (1969)

SB 44 v70-10 colors at random (1970)

SB 45 v70-11 random objectivation (1970)

SB 46 v67-15 print 6/20 (1967)

SB 47 sketches and notes for SB 48 and SB 49 (see additional images)

SB 48 v70-23 random color structure (1970)

SB 49 v70-18t random color structure (1970)

SB 50 v67-26 print 24/26 (1967)

SB 51 v71-101 (1971)

SB 52 v71-109 (1971)

SB 53 v71-117s (1971)

SB 54 missing in the SOHM BOEK, but still in the archive of herman and susanne de vries (the postcards with work number v72-18 were never sent)

SB 55 v72-33s (1972)

SB 56-57 v72-162 I-II (1972)

envelope with leaf (1978)

exhibition history
2016 'Schaufenster Sohm VI - herman de vries', Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart