Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
14.6 x 11.1cm, 1pp Artist's card with an image of a drum with sticks printed black on red. The card announces "March 15, 1987. 4th anniversary of Strathclyde Region's Assault on the Garden Temple, Little Sparta: how war flies". VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990 35x 27.7cm, 1pp b/w broadside. Folded twice as issued. A proposal for a public work at the famous Furka Pass in Switzerland - Finlay suggests the Swiss artist Hodler's signature be inscribed on a stone as if the artist is "signing" the landscape that he so often pictured in his work. The broadside reprints a text by Wouter Weijers and three small drawings by Kathleen Lindsley. One of only 200 copies published, this is in VG+....
Berlin: Galerie Jule Kewenig, 1987 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp gallery postcard showing a b/w photograph by Marco de Valdivia of the title work on the front, verso gallery details. ...
Köln : Galerie Michael Werner, 1987 57 x 44cm, full colour folded exhibition poster with an image of a Byars large golden paper work. Fine....
Brussels: Galerie Marie-Puck Broodthaers, 1987 21 x 15cm, 24pp. Card covers in a parody of Gallimard’s cover style. Exhibition catalogue and artists’ book. B/w images of works throughout. Scarce. Fine condition....
Brussels: Galerie Marie-Puck Broodthaers, 1987 19 x 25cm crumpled sheet of black paper with the title text printed in red with a gold thread enclosed in the wrinkled sheet. As issued....
Little Sparta: Committee of Public Safety/Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.. (1987?) 15 x 21cm, 1pp artist's card quoting two letters by Jonathan Hirschfeld and Michael Schmidt in Art Monthly and the Times Literary Supplement which bear remarkable similarities in their texts - hinting at a deliberate campaign to attack Finlay during the absurd attacks on Finlay that he was somehow a fascist because of his use of swastikas in the imagery of his work. VG+. ...
munster: Munster Sculptur Projekte, 1987
30 x 21cm, 60pp (printed recto only). Press pack for the festival of Sculpture that only takes place in Munster every 10 years. Finlay is the only artist who had not submitted images of his work in advance and the text explains that the Project asked the poet to create a monument for the poetess Annette von Droste-Hulshoff. One green highlight to the page (added by Finlay) else VG+
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Two typed notes from "rf" to "Clare" pointing out that the catalogue had been given to him by IGF and that she might find interesting. Both VG.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1976
43.2 x 55.8cm offset lithograph in green on white paper. Typography by John R. Nash. The "quotation" is from Ovid's Metamorphoses an epic poem of mythology. Here the quotation is from the story of Apollo and Daphne - the duo forced by Eros to be in emotional conflict with Daphne eventually being saved from ravishment by her father the river god turning her into a tree. This is the first of two linked works with the original quotation from Ovid unaltered from the translation - the other paired work has the text refer to Saint-Juste as "Apollo and "Daphne" becomes the spirit of the French revolution. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
77.0 x 62.5cm, full colour offset lithograph on paper. The reproduced painting by Hincks is based on a 1925 cubist painting by Juan Gris called Drummer. In place of Gris' adult, Finlay had Hincks turn the figure into the martyred "little drummer boy" Bara who died in the revolutionary war against the reactionary uprising in the Vendee. Here Hinck's recreation of the work is lighter and more classical in touch - even more heroic.
The image we have used here is from a publication - the print we hold is framed in wood and glass and hard to image without reflections - but the work is in VG+ condition.
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Kleve: Stadtisches Museum Haus Koekkoek, 1987
21 x 15cm, 4pp announcement for a posthumous show to honour the recently deceased artists with work from 199 other artists. There is a b/w photographic portrait of Beuys taken from behind him on the front of the card.. VG+.
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Wein: Galerie Herbert Winter, 1987
10.5 x 19cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for an installation by the artist - Locus Soius means a "unique place". The installation consisted of enlarged photographic portraits of unknown young people each illuminated with a single electrical lamp. VG+
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