12 Mar

Posted at 18:43h in James Lee Byars

Two folded black pieces of hand edged paper - 30 x 32cm, and 32.5 x 29cmm. Both with handwritten text in gold ink with Byars’ unmistakable starry stylings. The first seems to read “B I **** luck try that on yr modest group (the ***** of Godess??) you I hope you have a very creative” And the second: " time. Have call’d S 7 - I made it all official SEV times (??) Ate 8 - mouthfuls of **** yeats (years?). You keeping him here?? 9 - Make me some luck please. How material is a work 10 - make me some faith?? What is a work?? 11 Thank ytou for yr letter Let’s meet up soon Yrs JLB.” Bother are hard to read. We understand these were sent to Brandon Krall (the B is for Brandon) from who we purchased the letters. The introduction of the numbering in the second letter from 9 is curious - but the two clearly related to each other and one text continues from the previous one. The letters were delivered by hand to Krall by Byars. Fine condition. Unique....

12 Mar

Posted at 16:48h in James Lee Byars

Firenze: Zona Archives, 1990 22 x 5.7cm, 2pp strip of card, creased for folding and printed on both sides - on one with a small colour image of the artist and the whole side laminated - and on the reverse in one section there is the text 'James Lee Byars, Bilblioteca Nazionale, Firenze, Zona Archives, Novembre 1990'. The whole is designed to be folded into a cube (with open top and bottom). Extremely scarce emphera from Byars and not in the Byars catalogue raisonne. Fine condition. ...

12 Mar

Posted at 16:47h in James Lee Byars

Florence: Exempla / Exit Editions / Zona Archives, 1990 21 x 14.5 cm, 4pp. Self-covers. Artist's book - the title text stands for "PERFECT IS IN THE LOUVRE” and the book is a parody of (or hommage to) the format and typographic style of the Nouvelle Revue Françaisem Editions Gallimard. One of 1,000 issued. Fine. Now scarce. ...

12 Mar

Posted at 16:14h in James Lee Byars

N.p.: s.p., n.d. 24cm, 4pp dia. black card circle which is folded along a slightly flattened edge on the left. Opens up to display the text “P.I.T.L.” handwritten by Byars in his starry hand. Unique within a series of such works all hand made. Limitation of series unknown. ...

03 Mar

Posted at 14:25h in Artist's Postcards

Glasgow: Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, 1990 21 x 14.9cm, 2pp full colour postcard with an image of Finlay's title neon work on the front, verso gallery details. Photograph by Elke Walford taken during the Gresat British Art exhibition. VG+. ...

21 Feb

Posted at 07:34h in Artist's Books

Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1990
24.5 x 24.5cm, 56pp plus card covers and printed dust jacket with tipped on illustration. A series of drawings by Ron Costley after instructions from Finlay which reinterpret modern weaponry as classical memes. A camouflaged tank is denoted as "GROVE:.
The second part of the book has various relief sculptures which are the same as the drawings in a different medium - a warplane has the word ECHO beside it - the radar being equated to the nymph who was cursed only to speak in echos. The sculptures are by John Andrew. VG+.
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13 Jan

Posted at 11:21h in Poems in folders

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1990)
19.5 x 11.8cm, blue outer folder with a drawing of a swallow on power lines with a 4pp insert with a one line poem by Finlay:

The Sound of a Single Swallow

gathering

The amusing one word naming of the sound made by a single bird being usually associated with a group also indicates the loudness of the sound. VG+. ...

04 Jan

Posted at 11:31h in Poems in folders

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (c. 1990?) 16.5 x 12.2cm, 4pp folder content of a 4pp insert with a poem by Finlay:

FORECAST

'Rain - some
of it
heavy

more particularly
in the glens
of Scotland

where it may
fall as
sleet'

the sound
of calligrammes

The poem about the awful weather in Scotland is rounded off with a reference to Apolloniare's calligrammes and, in particular, his famous version of rain where the poem's words are in the shape of falling rain.
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