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| catalogue number: | hdv 1979.083. |
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| creation date: | 1979 |
| classification: | mail- & stamp art |
| work type: | postal message |
| medium: | brown cardboard envelope with bags containing herbs and artefacts; the content for each postal message is different |
| dimensions: | 15 × 22 × 4 cm |
| signature and inscriptions: | dated (postmark) '13.6.79', signed and stamp 'postal message herman de vries' on the front |
| edition: | [herman de vries : eschenau 1979] edition 15, numbered 1/15 - 15/15 [but only 7 realized] |
| current repository: | collection herman and susanne de vries private collection, Amsterdam (postal message was sent to Lydia Megert, Bern) |
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| comment: | the postal message to susanne jacob de vries contains a weathered cigarette packaging, collected 10-5 1979 in the Böhlgrund (Steigerwald) and a shard, collected on 13-6 1979 in Traustadt - CH; the postal message to Lydia Megert, Bern contains a squashed Coca Cola can, collected on April 16, 1979 on a parking plot near Emmerich-D (according to a handwritten note added to the parcel) and a label |
| photo/scan: | studio herman de vries/l-cs |
| rights & reproduction: | herman de vries |