les fenêtres
| catalogue number: | hdv 2004.111.1a-h |
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| date created: | 2004-2007 |
| classification: | installations |
| work type: | installation |
| medium: | based on an idea of susanne jacob de vries, herman de vries had 8 small round circles cut in very old rock in the Vallon des Descoure, near Digne-les-Bains. With that he made visible a glimpse of the richness contained in these massifs |
| dimensions: | each circle Ø 30 cm |
| signature and inscriptions: | uninscribed |
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| current repository: | collection Musée Gassendi, Digne-les-Bains |
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| current repository number: | 2013.4.62-69 |
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| comment: | 'les fenêtres from left to right: triassic dolomite (-210 to -230 million years) | 'Norian or Rhetian yellow dolomite (-205 million years) | Hettangian black limestone (-200 million years) | marly limestones of Sinemurien (193 million years) | Carixian hard flint limestone (-187 million years) | black limestone of the Domerian (-183 million years) |
| photo/scan: | archive herman de vries/Jean-Denis Frater |
| rights & reproduction: | herman de vries |
published references
| exhibition catalogue | herman de vries, 'les fenêtres de pierre', in herman de vries (Fage Éditions : Lyon / Musée Gassendi : Digne-les-Bains 2009) 154-155 (ill.). |
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| exhibition catalogue | Myette Guiomar, 'Les fenêtres s'ouvrent sur la mer', in herman de vries (Fage Éditions : Lyon / Musée Gassendi : Digne-les-Bains 2009) 156-165 (ills.). |
| guide | L'art en marche. 20 randonnées d'art contemporain (Musée Gassendi : Digne-les-Bains 2012) 60-61. |
| collection catalogue | 'herman de vries, les fenêtres de pierre, 2004-2007', in L'Art en montagne. Collection du Musée Gassendi (Éditions Fage : Lyon 2024) 102-105 (ill.), 239. |