Drug use in the Netherlands: four drawings on pages torn from a notepad, with printed texts stapled to them. Colour lithograph after H. Brood, 1995.

  • Brood, Herman.
Date:
[1995]
Reference:
748920i
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About this work

Description

The drawings are relatively incoherent but seem to show the following. Top left, a bishop with a person lyng on a bed. Top right, a sculptor with a long alphabetical list of brand names of medicines, ending "Anders nog iets?" (Anything else?). Bottom left, a drug addict holding a syringe, with text including "suicidale romantiekshow". Bottom right, a person holding a spoon with halftones of a cowboy and a gun

Publication/Creation

[Amsterdam] : Mainline, [1995]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 42.1 x 54.2 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Mainline drugs, gezondheid in de straat. brood All four drawings signed "brood" in the print; top left with date "'90"; top right with date "'95"; bottom left with no date; bottom right possibly with date "'91"

Creator/production credits

Herman Brood (b. 1946) was a Dutch rock musician, artist and drug addict who killed himself in 2001

Reference

Wellcome Collection 748920i

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Where to find it

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    Closed stores
    748920i.1
  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    748920i.2

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