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
- Pictures
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
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"
Reference
Wellcome Collection 748920i
Creator/production credits
Herman Brood (b. 1946) was a Dutch rock musician, artist and drug addict who killed himself in 2001
Type/Technique
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores748920i.1Location Status Access Closed stores748920i.2