06 Feb

Posted at 11:02h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
6 x 12cm, 4pp. A monostitch is a one line poem - here the monostich is preceded by "For a Seat - to be Placed by a Stream".
Inside the poem reads "A Row of Crack Willows or Marilyn Monroes". Crack willows are trees that are renowned for the sound they make when the branches and parts of the trunk break. Monroe was, of course, a film actress who died early and a great beauty.
The leaves of the willows, of course, billow as they hang down and that is reminiscent of the most famous of images of Monroe with her wide skirt billowing up as she stands over an underground hot air grate in the film "Some Like It Hot". There is also a duplication of the sound of the word Row in her name. VG+.

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15 Jan

Posted at 10:47h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
13.6 x 10.4cm, 4pp. A drawing by Gary Hincks of a fishing boat with five sails - each is numbered in the "plan" and are all denoted as being made from a "hanky" - namely, Foresale, Topsail, Staysail and Mainsail hankies but the fifth is denoted as Sunday Hanky.
The "hankies" clearly mark out this boat as a toy model and the final sail is something of an oddity in sailing in that it is not that an important element in the rigging. As such - like a Sunday Hanky - only shown during important events, it is an adornment rather than functional. VG+.

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03 Jan

Posted at 10:18h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
14 x 11cm, 1pp. he card reproduced a vintage photograph of a small three sailed boat and crew - CH.8619 - returning home with masts down after fishing (an image of the same boat that Finlay used in the 1994 FLIRT) and the text "SANS-CULOTTE: SANS-CULOTTES" beneath it.
The sans-culottes were the great mass of the people during the 18th century and a motive force in the late years of the French revolution: the nickname meaning they did not have breechs (because of poverty).
This is an image of a working trawler - representing the proletarian masses in some sense, and with the sails down they are metaphorically also without breeches. VG+.

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15 Dec

Posted at 11:16h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
12.5 x 13cm, 48pp plus flower pattern boards and tipped on book title label. Artist's book with ten woodcuts by Gary Hincks of flowers opposite epigrams by Finlay such as

4. A wild flower is a garden flower permeated by morality and poetry."

One of only 250 such books prints as Christmas gifts. VG+

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15 Dec

Posted at 09:42h in Artist's Postcards

Little: Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, Xmas 1994
6.7 x 13cm, 4pp card with 6.7 x 13cm, 1pp insert.
The card is a typical evolving visual poem by Finlay:

the October-coloured sails of old Thames barges
the water-filled footprints of old Thames barges
the cold Christmas stables of old Thames barges
the Georgian pastorals of old Thames barges

The fourth line is printed in festive red.
The insert explains the imagery: the October-coloured sails are caused by the linseed oil on the sails hinting at Autumn colours, the water-filled footprints comes from a quote from a book on old barges where abandoned boats are left in mud in creeks to rot, the festive line recalls the "long, low holds with their tie beams and ceilings" which Finlay clearly sees as a suitable site for a manger, and the Georgian pastorals reflects the hay and straw that many of the boats carried - turning them into miniature moving countrysides.
This example is signed " Happy Christmas from Ian" in pencil on the back and also has the original envlope which is addressed in pencil (again by Finlay) to Edward and Jan. VG+.

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28 Nov

Posted at 13:50h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Berlin: Kewenig, 1994
49 x 34.5cm, 8pp. Exhibition catalogue in the form of a tabloid newspaper. Five full sheet (one double) appropriated portrait images by the artist and a text in German and English by Jiri Svestka. Folded into sixths as issued and with original printed mailing band. VG+.

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20 Nov

Posted at 10:11h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
13.0 x 15.4cm, 4pp. A tipped on colour photograph by Antonia Reeve of a Finlay wall sculpture by John Andrew. The marble inscription reads: "For the first time men earnestly relied upon heaven chronology became historical and astronomical at the same time." a quote by Michelet and an explanatory note by Finlay noting how the Republican calendar "ended" time. VG+.

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17 Nov

Posted at 21:31h in Monographs & Essays

Richmond: Worthington Miro Archive, 1994
21 x 15cm, 54pp plus card wrappers,. A listing of the Ian Hamilton Finlay archive at the Worthington Miro Archive. Greville Worthington replaced Graeme Murray as Finlay's main dealer in 1994. This copy was Worthington's own "master packing List" with exactly that written in ink on the cover else VG+.

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17 Nov

Posted at 08:33h in EPHEMERA

Aachen: Artefact, 1994
30 x 21cm, 16pp (self cover). A single number of the magazine of Ludwig Museum (17 November 1994) which has a one page article on Boltanski inside and the cover given over to one of the appropriated images from the post-War DIESE KINDER SUCHEN IHRE ELTERN poster. VG+.

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12 Nov

Posted at 09:55h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1994
14.5 x 9.3m, 1pp. The card reproduced a vintage photograph of a small three sailed boat and crew - CH.8619 - and the text "Cours apres moi que je t'attrape" - "run after me, I will catch you" which Finlay translates into the bare word "FLIRT". VG+.

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07 Nov

Posted at 10:06h in Monographs & Essays

Richmond: Saint Paulinius, 1994
21 x 15cm, 56pp. Original wrappers with printed semi-transparent dustjacket. A publisher's/dealer's catalogue listing a large number of works and books, etc by Finlay available with prices. Greville Worthington was Finlay's dealer after Graeme Murray eventually being replaced by the Ingleby Gallery of Edinburgh. A useful reference which uses the same numbering system as the Wild Hawthorn Press does on-line - which is an improvement from Murray. VG+.

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