UNTITLED. 1972.

Amsterdam: s.p. (Hans de Vreis), 1973

30 x 21cm, (closed size) which opens to 90 x 42cm (comprising three sheets – two 60 x 42 and one 30 x 21cm – stapled together by the artist to create an irregular shaped publication.

The text is in the artist’s facsimile hand and is taken from his nature diaries – the process of noting every small detail encountered was originally a German art phenomenon called  “Spurensicherung”. There are three b/w small images of the countryside and a young boy encountered on a walk.

De Vries is by coincidence very similar in process to his compatriot Hermann de Vries who shares a surname but the two are not related.

Slight marks to the outer paper else this is VG+ and a very scarce document from an important but oft overlooked Dutch artist.