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earth notes - collected by friends [volume 7 of 9]

catalogue number: hdv 2002.052.
date created: 2002 (2006)
classification: works on paper
work type: earth rubbing series, artist's book
medium: handwritten title page followed by 108 samples of earth/soil, collected by friends from all over the world; rubbed on paper; each rubbing is protected by a sheet of Japanese paper; bound in brown leather with title 'earth notes' and artist on the back in hot foil stamping, in slipcase
dimensions: 108 sheets each 18 × 14 cm
slipcase 19.7 × 15.5 × 4.9 cm
signature and inscriptions: titled 'earth notes - / collected by friends / sulawesi/celebes 1-18, collected: milli schödrich 1997 / bering sea island 19-22, coll.: marietta & ingo schulze 2002 / greenland 23-26, coll.: marietta & ingo schulze / spitzbergen 27-28, coll.: marietta & ingo schulze / arctic islands + north siberia 29-35, coll.: marietta & ingo schulze 2002 / siberia 36-39, coll.: caroline blaser / zimbabwe 40-46, coll.: joke wezenbeek 1997 / botswana 47-50, coll.: joke wezenbeek 1997 / namibia 50-58. coll.: hartmut geerken / maputo, moçambique 59-60, coll.: joao moma 1992 / chile 60-82, coll.: lisa pließ 200. / china 83-100, coll.: jan hoekstra a.o. / tibet 101-102, coll.: [?] 2006 / island 103-108, coll.: ♀ & ♂ braun-vogt 1998' and signed on the title page and the reverse of the title page (graphite pencil)
numbered 'bd. 7/9' and edition '1/1' left from the title page (graphite pencil)
each sample with location and numbered on the reverse of each page (graphite pencil)
edition: 1/1
[published by the artist : eschenau 2002]
current repository: collection herman and susanne de vries
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rights & reproduction: herman de vries
published references
catalogue raisonné herman de vries. les livres et les publications : catalogue raisonné (centre des livres d'artistes : Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche 2005) image repr. on page 200, 199 (catalogue number 84).