| 1997 | 'herman de vries. from earth - von der erde', Städtische Galerie am Markt, Schwäbisch Hall |
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from white earth / von weisser erde
| catalogue number: | hdv 1993.052. |
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| date created: | 1993 |
| classification: | works on paper |
| work type: | earth rubbing series, edition |
| medium: | hand-labeled case containing 8 sheets of paper of which 1 cover page with on the front handwritten title, artist and editor in graphite pencil and on the reverse a list of the geographical origins of the earth samples and the number of sheets '1 + 7 p.', followed by a sheet of Japanese paper with text 'white earth/white love/white light/white bird/white wonder/why', followed by 7 sheets with white earth/soil samples, collected in Montagne de Thiey - France, Kirchlauter - Germany, Marathi on Patmos - Greece, Hermigua, La Gomera (Canary Islands) - Spain, Curaçao, Elmali - Kaş - Turkey and Ait Atab - Morocco, rubbed on paper; on the reverse of the sheets the number corresponding with the list of origins; in gray cardboard case with title, artist and editor in black ink |
| dimensions: | 8 + 1 (cover page) sheets, each sheet 27.4 × 21 cm case 29.3 × 22 × 1.4 cm |
| signature and inscriptions: | numbered and signed on the cover page (graphite pencil) |
| edition: | bern - eschenau / edition lydia megert
edition 13, numbered 1/13 - 13/13 |
| current repository: | [3/13] collection herman and susanne de vries [8/13] collection Bayrische Staatsbibliothek, Munich [13/13] collection Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
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| current repository number: | [8/13] 4 L.sel.I 3783-1/7 [13/13] 1994.1.0177 |
| collecting history: | |
| related works: | in 2005 'from white earth' became part of the 'library of earth colours' |
| comment: | the list of the geographical origins of the earth samples: 1. montagne de thiey, fr | 2. kirchlauter, d | 3. marathi, patmos, gr | 4. hermigua, gomera, sp | 5. curaçao | 6. elmali - kaş, tü | 7. ait atab, ma |
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| rights & reproduction: | herman de vries |
exhibition history
published references
| catalogue raisonné | herman de vries. les livres et les publications : catalogue raisonné (centre des livres d'artistes : Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche 2005) no image repr., 197 (catalogue number 77). |
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