herman de vries art catalogue

catalogue number:	hdv 1972.091.1a-l
date created:	1972
classification:	editions & publications
work type:	collage edition
medium:	14 sheets in portfolio; on the first sheet (on the front) title and author in black ink (handwritten) and the last sheet is empty; 12 sheets with collages; images from magazines are cut in squares (3 × 3 cm) and randomly arranged in a grid pattern
dimensions:	each sheet 43 × 43 cm
signature and inscriptions:	titled 'semantic chance semantic change / change of semantics semantics of change / chance of semantics semantics of chance', author and dated/work number 'V72-26' on the title page (black ink)
edition:	[published by the artist : eschenau] 1972 edition 1/1

current repository:	collection herman and susanne de vries
current repository number:
collecting history:
related works:
comment:	collages from left to right: see 'extended description'
photo/scan:	studio herman de vries/l-cs
rights & reproduction:	herman de vries

extended description

title page

[v72-26a] fragment of a lotus pond in colour, but missing (14.8 × 11.9 cm)

[v72-26b] fragment of the Isenheimer Altar in Colmar (20.7 × 20.55 cm)

[v72-26c] as [2] but 4 elements (6.55 × 6.6 cm)

[v72-26d] 6 groups of 4 elements; fragments of shopping women (20.5 × 13.8 cm)

[v72-26e] picture of a girl from the 'Schönheitsgalerie' magazine Quick (23.6 × 23.95 cm)

[v72-26f] fragment of a flower still life by Breughel (19.5 × 23.65 cm)

[v72-26g] as [6] but 4 elements (8.9 × 8.7 cm)

[v72-26h] advertisement Campari (15.7 × 27.8 cm)

[v72-26i] as [8] but 4 elements (8.7 × 8.7 cm)

[v72-26j] as [3], but black/white and 4 elements (6.1 × 6.1 cm)

[v72-26k] road with forest and sunset (16.8 × 16.9 cm)

[v72-26l] as [1] but 1 element (3.65 × 3.75 cm)

empty sheet, but missing

exhibition history

1975	'herman de vries. random shapes', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam

published references

exhibition catalogue	herman de vries. random shapes (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam : Amsterdam 1975) no image repr. (catalogue number 21).
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) images repr. on pages 104-108, 103 (catalogue number 15).