26 Feb

Posted at 14:59h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
40 x 52cm, blue, red and black offset lithograph.A French flag drawn by Hincks has the texts "LIBERTY FOR SOME/EQUALITY FOR SOME/LIBERTY FOR SOME" respectively on each coloured section. The colours of the tricolour (invented as a compromise early during the French Revolution) were the red and blue: the colours of Paris allied to the white of the king. Later after the king was deposed and killed the flag was retained as the nation's flag and never retired even after the rise of Napoleon. The three texts of the work remind one that the revolutionary ideals did not really ever succeed - in fact, one might argue during the Terror, they had already been broken. VG.

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23 Feb

Posted at 20:50h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
21 x 14.8cm 8pp booklet designed and with drawings by Gary Hincks after Claude Lorrain. Finlay claims he saw a resemblance between a "coastal area in the south of England and Latium, the leafly coastal country of the later chapters of Virgil's Aneneid." The former presumably is owned by Thompson for whom the proposal was made. Each page has a water colour and a text by Finlay suggesting tree plaques, stone inscriptions and the installation of a "classical gate". Near fine condition.

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20 Feb

Posted at 22:59h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
13.5 x 13cm, 16pp plus printed brown card covers. Four drawings of proposed texts" for a paved area adjacent to a barn." each drawn by Stephen Raw. Included are the works:
Swallows
Little Matelots

Brown barns
Slower than old beige barges

VG+.

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28 Jan

Posted at 18:10h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Basel. Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 1989
23 x 16cm. 62pp plus card covers. Artist's book released on the occasion of an exhibition in Switzerland. Twenty-three enlargements of faces from a group photograph of children celebrating the Fete de Pourim in 1939 in a Parisian Jewish School - looking at the faces (which take on the characteristics of spectres because of the fuzziness from the enlargement) one cannot tell the fates of any particular child although one might suspect many to have died in the killing camps of the Nazis. There is an interview in German between Boltanski and Jorg Zutter at the back of the book. VG+.
Reference: Flay Catalogue Page 180.

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24 Jan

Posted at 20:29h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
12.8 x 20.3, 2pp card. The card has an appropriated drawing of a hunt in full chase - the hare has the name De Mann over it. Paul de Mann was an important literary critic who alongside Derrida popularised the concept of deconstruction. Finlay WAs clearly no fan. VG+.

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18 Jan

Posted at 23:34h in EPHEMERA

Paris: Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, 1989
10.5 x 21cm, 1pp typographic announcement card printed in red and black for a solo gallery show. Slight bumping top right else VG. ...

12 Jan

Posted at 11:19h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Koln: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1999
25 x 18 cm. 192pp plus card covers and French folds. A collective artist's book in hommage of the publisher Walther König with contributions by John Baldessari, Lothar Baumgarten, Bernd & Hilla Becher, ein loses vierseitiges Insert von Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, George Brecht, Günter Brus, Hanne Darboven, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli & David Weiß, Isa Genzken, Hans Haacke, Candida Höfer, Carsten Höller, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Nam June Paik, ein lose einliegendes Walther König-Lesezeichen von Tobias Rehberger, Ulrich Rückriem, Tomas Schmit, Schuldt, Thomas Struth, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz Erhard Walther. The cover was designed by Lawrence Weiner. Slightly grubby cover but else VG.
Boltanski has contributed an original pagework a photograph of a young boy holding a book in front of a bookshop which purports to be Konig at age 10 - something which we cannot verify or a typical Boltanski strategy of using a model to pretend to be the book dealer.

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06 Jan

Posted at 18:39h in PHOTOGRAPHS

NYC: n.p., 1989
5 x 5cm, b/w transparency with a detail of the Boltanski installation "Reliquary" from 1989. Handwritten legend on the plastic - a slide provided by a gallery to press or clients. VG+.

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02 Jan

Posted at 13:08h in Invitation Cards

Frankfurt: Galerie Lupke, 2010 30 x 21cm, 2pp. Announcement card (on paper) with a b/w installation image of a Finlay exhibition on the two hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution, short text in German on the back and biography. Folded for mailing else VG. ...

15 Dec

Posted at 22:22h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1988
31.4 x 22cm, 52pp plus card covers and dustjacket. A series of "definitions", one of Finlay's innovations in experimental poetry where a word is given an alternative meaning by the addition of a classical or modern quotation. For example:

PATCH, n.
1. A whole part.
The trousers and jumpers of men vary in hue from the brightest orange vermilion to the palest rose pink, and are decorated with every imaginable sort of PATCH.
Peter Anson, The Breton Sardine Fisheries.

As we have noted elsewhere Finlay regards a patch as a symbol of warm, caring as well as poverty.
Slight bumping to corners of the book - else VG+. One of 250 copies published at Christmas 1988....

10 Dec

Posted at 15:16h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1988.
83 x 10.8cm, 4pp - the Xmas card sent out by Finlay in 1988 to friends and clients. The card bears a poem:

A FRAGMENT

When bare black hedgerows
Wear white shadows
And the fields without snow
Face the fire:
a rug

The white shadows are the plumes of snow on the branches and the fields without snow is a visual correspondence of the rug. The other sides of the card are blank - or white like snow. VG+. Scarce....

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