from earth: +/- lila
| catalogue number: | hdv 2003.052.1 |
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| date created: | 2003 |
| classification: | works on paper |
| work type: | earth rubbing series, edition |
| medium: | hand-labeled case containing 10 samples of lila earth/soil pigments, collected in Plefouti and Castro on Leros - Greece, in Sta. Clara, Mta. de la Asomada and what herman and susanne called 'lomo loco [weird place]' on La Gomera (Canary Islands) - Spain and in Kirchlauter, rubbed on paper; in rose-lila cardboard case with handwritten title, artist and editor (coloured pencil) |
| dimensions: | 10 + 1 (on the front handwritten title, artist, edition and editor and on the reverse a list of the geographical origins of the earth samples) sheets, each sheet 23 × 17.5 cm case 26 × 19.5 × 1.7 cm |
| signature and inscriptions: | signed, impressum and numbered on the title page (graphite pencil) |
| edition: | édition lydia megert - paris/bern 2003
edition 13, numbered 1/13 - 13/13 |
| current repository: | [3/13] collection Bayrische Staatsbibliothek, Munich [6/13] collection herman and susanne de vries [10/13] private collection, Bern |
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| current repository number: | [3/13] 4 L.sel.I 3783-1/7 |
| collecting history: | |
| related works: | 'proofs for lila'(2000), from earth: proofs for lila-rosa-violet (2002), [proofs for 'lila rosa']
in 2005 'from earth: +/- lila' became part of the 'library of earth colours' |
| comment: | list of the origins of the samples: 1. leros, plefouti | 2. leros, plefouti | 3. leros, castro | 4. leros, castro | 5. leros, castro | 6. kirchlauter-d | 7. gomera, sta. clara | 8. gomera, mta. de la asomada | 9. gomera, lomo loco | 10. gomera, lomo loco |
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| rights & reproduction: | herman de vries |
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., 209 (catalogue number 97). |
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