Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1991) 11.6 x 14.6cm, 2pp. Artist's card which notes the names and dates of the two child martyrs of the French Revolution. The border around the names shows two drawings by Laurie Clark of a war drum and a child's toy horse on wheels - to remind the viewer how young the boys were when they died. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991 10.0 x 6.8cm, 14pp plus wrappers and printed dust jacket. Artist's book with seven illustrations by Kathleen Lindsley and short proverb-like texts by Finlay, for example, "The wind roaring in the night is both stranger and friend." VG+ - although staples are a bit rusty. ...
Dusseldorf/Kassel/Venice: ASPC, 1991
1.8cm, embossed golden circle with a spiral raised on the thing card. Unlimited edition but now very scarce. VG+.
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Mannheim: Galerie Stadtpark, 1991
23 x 23cm, 12pp plus card covers and printed dust jacket. Exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of 27 photographs of Little Sparta by Martin Greenhalgh. VG+.
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Hamburg: Hamburger Kunstehalle, 1991
21 x 7cm, 8pp (single folded sheet printed black on yellow) typographic announcement card for a solo exhibition - 6 small b/w images of installations and the artist. Signed in ink by Boltanski on the first page. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.. (1991) 3.1 x 14.7cm, 4pp artist's card (asymmetric fold) designed by Caroline Webb for Finlay with the French word ARBRE capped off a the front by an ornate letter M to create MARBRE which means mottled or marbled. The card refers to the silver birch (bouleau is French for Birch) and the way the bark can be of various colours. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1991) 18.8 x 8.6cm, 2pp. Artist's card with a drawing of a guillotine on a platform above the text "A model of order even if set in a space filled with doubt". The killing machine is a perfect operator no matter where it is found. VG+. ...
NYC: n.p., 1991
5 x 5cm, b/w transparency with a detail of the Boltanski installation "Photographic Album of Family D" from 1991. Handwritten legend on the plastic - a slide provided by a gallery to press or clients. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991 9 x 10.5cm, 6pp concertina fold. Artist;s card with two paintings reproduced by Ian Gardner based on works by John Robert Cozens. VG+. ...
Paderborn-Wewer: Wolfgang Puschel, 1991
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for a posthumous show of Beuys editions. VG+.
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Charleston: Spoleto Festival, 1991
21 x 14cm, 52pp plus original wrappers. Artist's book which displays 345 b/w images of the claimed belongings of a young woman in Charleston (the town of the Festival). One of several such artist's books surveying a student's entire inventory - shown without comment in a quasi-archival manner. Much as with the appropriated photographs of unknown people Boltanski uses an anonymous subject, In fact one cannot be sure that this is even a real person and not an accumulation of found items. Boltanski was part of the Festival exhibition "Places with a Past: new Site Specific Art in Charleston". The photographs are credited to Beth Dinoff by an attached label at the back of the book. VG+.
Referenced in Flay Boltanski Catalogue Page 200.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
43 x 41cm, four colour offset lithograph with a reproduction 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.
This was a limited edition print issued at the same time as the exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery that examined the work in some detail and responses to the work.
There was also an exhibition poster for the show based on the same image and the cover of the exhibition catalogue and invitation to the vernissage.
Fine condition. Limitation unknown but usually 300 - 350 for Finlay prints.
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