from earth: gelb jaune yellow
| catalogue number: | hdv 2004.052.1 |
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| date created: | 2004 |
| classification: | editions & publications |
| work type: | earth rubbing series |
| medium: | hand-labeled case containing 18 sheets of paper of which 1 sheet with on the front with handwritten title ('from earth' in pencil and the second part 'gelb jaune yellow' in 3 different yellow coloured pencils), artist, edition and editor and on the reverse a list of the geographical origins of the earth samples; followed by 17 sheets with samples of yellow earth pigments, collected in Gedu - Bhutan, Ormiston Gorge - Australia, Agia Isidoros on Leros - Greece, in Nzala des Beni Amar - Morocco, in Tifirabe on El Hierro and Chiguire-Santa Clara and Caleta on La Gomera (Canary Islands) - Spain, Drescher (Eschenau) and Pfaffenreuth and Konnersreuth (Stiftland), Stephansberg (Bamberg), Carrière d'Ocres, Roussillion - France, South Sulawesi - Indonesia and in Polawinna, Baikal (Siberia) - Russia, rubbed on paper; yellow cardboard case with title ('from earth' in pencil and the second part 'gelb jaune yellow' in 3 different yellow coloured pencils), artist and editor in graphite pencil |
| dimensions: | each sheet 28.3 × 21 cm case 31 × 23 × 2.2 cm |
| signature and inscriptions: | signed and numbered on the title page (graphite pencil) on the reverse of each sheet the number corresponding with the list of origins (graphite pencil) |
| edition: | édition lydia megert - paris/bern 2004
edition 13, numbered 1/13 - 13/13 + 1 a.c. |
| current repository: | [6/13] collection herman and susanne de vries [8/13] collection Bayrische Staatsbibliothek, Munich (rep. number 4 L.sel.I 3783-1/7) [9/13] private collection, Amsterdam |
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| related works: | 'skizze für gelb I/II - II/II' (2004) and proofs for yellow (2004)
in 2005 'from earth: gelb jaune yellow' became part of the 'library of earth colours' |
| comment: | list of the origins of the samples: 1. bhutan - gedu | 2. australia - ormiston gorge | 3. greece, leros - agia isidoros | 4. morocco - nzala [des] beni ammar | 5. canarias, el hierro - tifirabe | 6. germany, eschenau - drescher | 7. new zealand - coromandel | 8. u.s.a., north carolina - providence canyon | 9. u.s.a., north carolina - providence canyon | 10. germany, stiftland - pfaffenreuth | 11. germany, stiftland - konnersreuth | 12. germany, bamberg - stephansberg | 13. canarias, la gomera - chigueré [= chiguire]-santa clara | 14. canarias, la gomera - caleta | 15. france, roussillon - carrière d'ocres | 16. indonesia, south sulawesi - cra | 17. siberia, baikal - polawin[n]a |
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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 100). |
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