22 Jun CURVED TO FLAT. 1997.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
10.6 x 14.8cm, 2pp artist's card with various boats numbers which create a sort of phonetic poem:
4 F43 BF437
5 A58
K CK4 BCK41
VG+.
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18 Jun EIN RAUM VON IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 1997.
Basel: Stampa, 1997 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a art fair presentation of Finlay's work. The front of the card shows a sculptural form of his SAILS/WIND work - the shape of the chair seat and back mirroring the concrete poem painted on the chair. VG+. ...
14 Jun UNTITLED (NONE OF THE BUILDINGS ON SUNSET STRIP). 1997. UNIQUE PHOTO NOT USED IN THE BOOK..
14.5 x 18.8cm, b/w silver gelatine print on Ilford MgIV paper displaying an unused (ie not reproduced in the artist's book "None of the buildings on the Sunset Strip") - an unique photograph.
On the rear in Monk's handwriting are the settings for the camera that he used, the word's "Artist's Proof" and the title "NONE OF THE BUILDINGS ON SUNSET STRIP", his signature in ink and the date 1997.
One small stain on the reverse and a very small, hard to notice fixative stain on the front but otherwise mint condition and unique.
JOINT:
A handwritten note from the artist to Paul Robertson explaining the photograph and offering it in part trade for future purchases. The letter is coffee stained on the left hand side due to large-dog-accident (bloody Yuri the first avant guard dog did it, clumsy lump of an animal but much missed).
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13 Jun RUDDER/VARNISH. 1997.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
17.0 x 6.3cm, 4pp outer folder content of two "cards" both 17.0 x 6.3cm, 1pp but one is a red and black drawing by Gary Hincks of a rudder and the other a transparent plastic with the word "Varnish" at the top. The plastic placed over the drawing reproduces the shine of the varnish one finds on most rudders. VG+.
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06 Jun IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 1997.
Wein: Herbert Winter, 1997
10.5 x 15cm, 1pp. Typographic announcement card for a Finlay solo show printed purple on white. VG+.
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05 Jun AN URN FOR NOVALIS. 1997.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
20 x 13.8cm, 2pp artist's card with a drawing (elevations and plan) by Peter Coates of the sides of a memorial urn.
Novalis was the pseudonym of Friedrich von Hardenberg a German Romantic poet - the urn has on one side the name Sophie who was the poet's young love (13 when they met!) but who died not long after before she was 16. The other side of the urn has the abbreviated Greek name for Christ in some emotional sense equating the dead girl to the godhead. The top of the urn has a stylised eternal flame. VG+.
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02 Jun ALMOST HALF HER LENGTH AGAIN….. 1997.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1997)
15.4 x 10cm, 4pp folding card with a wraparound b/w images by Dianne Tammes of two of Finlay's toy boats. Internally there is a poem:
Almost half her length again/extending mizzen sail & jib, the/glamour of two birch dowels/breasting waves.
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23 May HOMAGE TO DOM SILVESTER HOUEDARD. 1997.
Glasgow: WAX336, 1997
10 x 11cm, 2pp. Artist's card with the text "typewriter" and "Scaffolding" repeated alternatively on the front. A reference to the typescripts of dsh. Early concrete poem by Bellingham. VG+.
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19 May FOR THE NEOCONCEPTUALIST LAWRENCE WEINER IS A PRESOCRATIC. 1997.
Glasgow: Wax366, 1997
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard with the text which amusingly compares the conceptual artist Weiner to a Pre-Socratic . VG+.
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10 May LES REGISTRES DU GRAND-HORNU (DETAIL). 1997.
N.p. (Bruxelles?): COmmunaute francaise de Belgique, 1997
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Full colour postcard with a details from the huge title installation. Fine.
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26 Apr IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. SAIL WHOLEMEAL. PRINTS 1963 – 1997. 1997
Dortmund: Museum am Ostwall, 1997
98 x 60cm, full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduction of the extremely rare Sail Wholemeal silkcreen by Finlay. An exhibition of prints from Little Sparta. VG+.
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25 Apr IMAGINED LANDS: POSTAGE STAMPS FOR A SCOTTISH REPUBLIC. 1997. WITH ORIGINAL TIPPED ON LIMITED EDITION STAMP.
Edinburgh: Morning Star Press/City Art centre, 1997
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for the release of a "stamp" album released as part of an exhibition "Imagined Lands: Postage Stamps for a Scottish Republic". On the front of the card is a tipped on original cinderella stamp designed by Finlay. The stamps themselves were a limited edition. This is a very scarce card. VG+.
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