Dusseldorf: Galerie Schmela, n.d. (c. December 1977)
14.8 x 10.6cm, 1pp typographic design announcement card for a group show at the gallery which lists all of the participating artists (including Beuys) in alphabetic order - including Anatol, Arakawa, Arman, Agnes Martin, Mack, Matta-Clark, Rinke, Rot(h), Tapies, Uecker, Wewerka and others. this was the 171st show at the gallery which is how we are able to date the card.
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Berlin: Edition Hundertmark, n.d. (1977)
10.3 x 15cm, 2pp. Artist designed card issued by Hundertmark with printed rubber stamp impressions by Beuys (Fluxus Zone East) and Ken Friedman (Fluxus Zone West). Beuys has written a hand signed dedication in red ink over the front of the card to (what we think is) Klaus-Gunther Schulz. The blue colour of the printing of the Fluxus Zone stamp impression is much lighter than other examples of this card we have seen - suggesting this was an additional printing of the work. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1977
22.9 x 28.8cm, blue on white paper in folded 6pp blue folder. Nine warships all of the Flower Class corvette class. The names of the ships were all after flowerrs. The print asks the owner to "fill in the Flowers with colours from the palette below" - the 'colours' are all words such as "fragrant", "open", "erect", "drooping" obviously not actual colours. The idea came from a work from Tom and Laurie Clark of the Moschatel Press (who were friends of Finlay).
This is one of 350 signed and numbered copies on the inside of the folder. Two slight faint marks at bottom of the print else VG in like folder.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, Summer 1973
Two 33 x 20.4cm, 2pp offset lithographic price list (now called a checklist) for the Press stapled top left. Mentions a long list of old and new publications from the Press with prices. Folded at the bottom for past storage else VG+.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1977
6.6 x 21cm, 2pp. A photographic card with a b/w image of a lily pond and the surface pond scum which has been disturbed by the passage of a swimming bird to leave lines in the algae. Amusingly Finlay credits this painterly image to himself, Carl Heideken (the photographer) and an "unidentified waterhen". The image is meant to appear like an improvised painting or even an avant garde music score (if one squints a bit and uses one's imagination) hence the title. VG+.
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Genoa: Samangallery, 1977 10 x 15 cm, embossed white, red on black announcement card which reproduced a Beuys blackboard drawing on the front with some success (along with an indented Hauptstrom stamp impression). The back of the card is hand addressed to Lucrezia De Domizio and is a mailed example with stamp. VG+ condition. ...
Basel: Rolf Preisig, 1977 10.5 x 21cm 2pp. Gold on black announcement card - typographic only. Fine although a mailed and stamped copy....
Paris: Musee d’art modern de la ville de Paris, 1977 15 x 10.5cm, 1pp. Typographic announcement leaflet foil stamped gold on black. Fine....
N.p. (Paris): Hazan, 1977
21 x 15cm, 48pp plus card covers. An early monograph on Finlay from a fellow poet - here with many works illustrated in b/w photographs and reproduced drawings and poems. This was the first book in French to be dedicated to Finaly's oeuvre and Edeline is one of the first to try to tease out the various themes in Finlay's work. The subtitlEs which means Gnomics and Gnomonics refers to obscure meanings and sundials. VG+.
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21 x 15cm, 4pp German textual supplement to the book.
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München, Schulmann & Kluger, 1977
21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement card for various book publications by Beuys with a collage of rubber stampings and signatures and drawings on the front (all reproduced), inside book and publisher details. VG+>
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Bonn: Stadt. Kunstmuseum Bonn, 1977
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp b/w announcement card displaying a b/w photograph of Beuys' "Silver Broom and Broom without Bristles" from 1972, verso gallery details. A mailed copy with stamp, frank and typed address. VG+.
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London: Serpentine Gallery, n.d. (1977) 30 x 21cm, 1pp green and b/w offset - the press release for the large scale Finlay solo show at the Serpentine Gallery. Folded for mailing else VG+. JOINT Mailing envelope to Seamus Cooney in Michigan. Neatly opened....