1978-11-01-100a

[untitled (collected: botanischer garten bern 24-10 1978)]

catalogue number: hdv 1978.083.
date created: 1978
classification: mail- & stamp art
work type: mail art
medium: transparent envelope with dried leaves of the gingko biloba, collected on October 24, 1978 in the Botanical Garden of Bern - Switzerland
dimensions: 10.5 × 14.8 cm
signature and inscriptions: dated (postmark) '1.11.80' on the front
annotated 'collected: botanischer garten bern 24-10 1978 v. gingko biloba' on the reverse (ink)
edition: [herman de vries : eschenau 1978]
edition 15, numbered 1/15 - 15/15 [but only 7 realized]
current repository: collection herman and susanne de vries
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam (postal message was sent to Lydia Megert, Bern)
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photo/scan: studio herman de vries/l-cs
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) images repr. on pages 156-157, 155 (catalogue number 49).