Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1992) 10.2 x 10.2cm, 4pp artist's card with a line drawing on the front by Stephen Duncalf of a toyshop but in a deconstructed style that could be read as both a vorticist style or a cubist construction. Inside there is a text by Finlay:

vorticist
toy shop

cubist
music shop

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. 6.4 x 9cm, 2pp. Artist's card with the text:

The Flageolet's Surname

drum

A flageolet is a woodwind instrument like a flute - or a pipe. Often in the military, it was paired with a drum (a pipe and drum) - hence the flute's "surname" is the drum. VG+. ...

Munich: Galerie Bernd Kluser, 1992
22 x 15.5 x 3cm printed slipcase content of two volumes. Uniformly 22 x 15cm, 92pp and 132pp respectively plus boards and printed dustjacket.
The exhibition catalogue of a group show based on the artists' reaction to the 1926 discovery of the frozen corpse of a leopard at 19,000 feet on Kilimanjaro - a height above where one might not expect such an animal to be found. Hemingway mentions this find in his book "The snows of Kilimanjaro" it being so unusual. The exhibition was based on a number of prints commissioned from each artist by the gallery and issued in two portfolios an edition of 60 copies.
Boltanski's print in portfolio II is a collaged image of a Jewish school from Berlin 1939 - the original photograph overlaid with crumpled transparent paper to slightly mask the image and with packing tape at the corners before being rephotographed. The final print is printed on transparent paper which adds to the feeling of heritage or of coming from a past time - something that mimics some perceptions of the found body of the dead cat.
Other artists found in the two portfolios (volume I and volume II) were Georg Baselitz, Per Kirkeby, Enzo Cucchi, Juliao Sarmento, Mimmo Paladino, Axel Katz, James Brown, Nicholas Africano, A.R. Penck and Donald Baechler; Volume Two features Jannis Kounellis, Maichael Byron, Rebecca Horn, Martin Disler, A.&P. Poirier, Stephan Blankenhol, Jan Fabre, and Tony Cragg as well as Boltanski.
All of the prints are reproduced in colour in the first of the two volumes in this catalogue.
The second volume here displays the various works shown in the group exhibition - Boltanski's was "Les Images Honteuses 'El Caso'" displayed in 3 vitrines and on the wall in a be-curtained image. El Caso includes images of murders and other similar tragedies - the curtain being a sort of removable censorship forcing the viewer to decide whether to look or not.
Short essay text in Enlgish and German by Bernd Kulser. VG+ although a few marks on the slipcase.
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12.5 x 15.5cm, silver gelatine photographic print from 1982 displaying a Boltanski work (painting on plaster - 200 x 300cm). Handwritten notes by an unknown person on reverse. ...

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992
11 x 15.5cm, 1pp card. A drawing by Wes Christensen of a modern man and a classical Greek man both holding up a leaflet. The text below the drawing asks "Which figure in in Costume?". The card simply seems to bring to attention that modern dress is as much a common costume as that of antiquity - which is a tad uninteresting but there you have it. We do not know the exact date of this card - our best guestimate based on the collaboration is 1999. VG+.

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London: ICA, 1992 62 x 50cm, full colour offset print with an image of one sculptural work "LA REVOLUTION EST UN BLOC". A limited edition print released during the ICA exhibition - apparently in a very small number (according to Pia Smilig only 30 copies were released). This print differs from the poster released in that Finlay's name is not printed in large letters top right and the white unprinted strip is not found along the bottom (making the print smaller). Additionally the paper is a little thicker than the poster. One small mark top right else VG+. ...

Berlin: Berliner Kunstlerprogramme des DAAD fur das Heimatmsuem Berlin- Mitte, 1991
16.7 x 12cm, 32pp (self cover). Museum exhibition catalogue for the major project where Botlanski and a team discovered all that they could find about a "missing house" ie a house that was demolished by bombs in the second world war. The project was meant to be temporary but after the closing of the international exhibition that it was created for, the enthusiasm of the local population led Boltanski to leave the work in situ although part of the original exhibition in the museum had to be taken down.
The house at Grosse Hamberger Strasse 15/16 was also the subject of the ornate and complex artist's book La Maison Manquante 1992 (one of the most difficult to find books by the artist).
This brochure was written for visitors to the space and details the story of the occupants (including found photographs and documents) in an open and accessible manner. This example is in VG+ condition although an adhesive barcode is found on the inside back cover.

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London: ICA, 1992
14.5 x 15.5cm, 28pp plus card covers and printed light brown dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue of ten large bronze sculptures most of which relate to Finlay's interest in the French revolution. Ten duotone images are tipped onto pages. The exhibition then went to Yorkshire. VG+. Minimal text.Endpapers have a short musical phrase which (I think) is from La Marseillaise.
JOINTLY INSERTED (AS ISSUED):
14 x 14cm, 8p accordion fold insert with a commentary in English by Stephen Bann. VG>

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London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 1992 22 x 15cm, 4pp , triangular shaped announcement card fpr an exhibition of small maquettes for sculptures. These small works are delights and one - Pyramid Beautiful Fanatical - is reproduced on the front (the card shape having been chosen to reflect the shape. The work probably references either Saint Just or Robespierre. VG+. ...

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992
21.0 x 8cm, 2pp. A valentine's day card with several images of a flower with the petals slowly being lost until the last has gone leaving only the stalk. Much like a lover may decline a traditional question associated with valentine's day the words he loves her/he loves her not are repeated in turn until the petals have all gone. A final flower here with all the petals unplucked however rescues the day and the card announces "he loves her".
There was a companion card that reverses the gender of the words also released by Finlay at the same time. The drawing was by Gary Hincks. VG+

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NYC: Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, 1992 15 x 21cm, 1pp typographic design announcement card for a show by Byars alongside Ulay's Long Playing Record. A mailed example with typed address and postal franking on back but still VG+. ...

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