Edinburgh, Scotland: Morning Star Publications, n.d. ( 1991)
21 x 15cm 4pp (folding sheet printed one side only) with various epigrams by Finlay denoted as "More Detached Sentences on Gardening". VG+.
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Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1991
24.5 x 18.6cm, 6pp single folded card sheet. A supplement to the first catalogue raisonne published by Finlay's then dealer covering the entire range of prints, artist books and cards covering the years 1990/1991. VG+.
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Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery, 1991
5.7 x 6cm,1pp. Ticket for entrance to the title exhibition. Utterly ephemeral. VG.
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Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery, 1991
21 x 7.8cm, 2pp announcement card with a reproduction of Finlay's Evening Will Come They Will Sew The Blue Sail on the front in blue on white and verso gallery details. VG+.
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Little SpartaL: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
18.2 x 11cm, 4pp printed outer folder content of 4pp sheeet with the text:
The present order.
Order the present.
Present the order.
This is a "postscript" to one of Finlay's best known works "The Present Order" (with Nicholas Stone) which takes the original's text and reworks it. The proposal is also to be cut on an unworked block of stone selected at the quarry face.
VG+.
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Frankfurt am Main/Koln: Portikus/Walther König, Köln, 1991.
22 x 29cm, 16pp, plus printed typographic boards. Artist's book with 56 b/w illustrations of German family life just before or at the beginning of the second world war with many of the subjects in military uniform. Each page has a tissue guard which has a patter of a cobweb on it. The book looks like a family album and the subjects are happy in their life - one cannot tell anything about their personal guilt or actions or morality during the war from the photographs.
This is one of only 30 copies that has an additional original 18.7 x 22.4cm, b/w photograph on the first sheet in photo-corners of a wedding with two men in uniform with the bridge and her friend. The extra page is signed and numbed by Boltanski on the inside cover of the book. VG+. Very scarce.
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Edinburgh: Fruit Market Gallery, 1991
30 x 10.6cm, 58pp. Exhibition catalogue for the retrospective of Finlay during the 11991 Edinburgh festival. Long essay by Edwin Morgan which also has a Spanish translation. Thirteen works reproduced in colour. VG+.
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Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery, n.d. (1991)
69 x 41cm, full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with a recreation of the painting "The Poor Fisherman" by Puvis De Chavannes - however the mast of the boat has had a revolutionary cockade been added to it. - hence adding a political edge to the image more than the original solely religious intent. The exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery that examined the work in some detail and responses to the work.
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Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery, 1991
21 x 19cm, 38pp plus wrappers. Illustrated exhibition catalogue for a show proposed by Finlay, themed around the famous painting by Puvis of the Poor Fisherman. Finlay had various new works created on the theme although the show also had other related works by other artists , the catalogue text is by Duncan MacMillan. VG+.
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Frankfurt am Main: Museum fur Modern Kunst, 1991
24 x 19cm, 100pp. card covers. Exhibition catalogue which really should be regarded as an artist's book due to 621 small b/w images of the aactual "Swiss dead" which follows a short essay in German and English by Gunter Metken. The images were found and sampled from over 3,000 obituaries from the regional newspaper "Le Nouveliste du Valais" and reprinted without comment. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
26 x 18cm, 20pp plus card wrappers and printed dust jacket. A proposal for Floriade, The Hague, Holland where 6 different inscribed milestones were to be situated. The first reminds one of a gravestone and its text a reminder of death as well as of a journey:
MAN
A passerby
The drawings were by Michael Harvey who also drew the proposed plan for the site where the milestones would be placed between two trees in a row.
ix Milestones
A Proposal for
£65.00
1991
with Michael Harvey
20 pp booklet with dustjacket
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1991)
9.2 x 7.6cm, 8pp plus card covers. Artist's book which has two definitions inside of the word Scud:
firstly, to sweep along easily and swiftly,: to drive before the wind: to traverse swiftly
and
to spank.
Finlay seems to have the idea of a boat moving quickly but also being forced along by its crew. VG+. ...