Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
16.8 x 11.5cm, 1pp. Artist's card with a photograph of Greyfriars Bobby: the famous Edinburgh dog which has a statue commemorating its loyalty to its master near Greyfriars Kirk churchyard seemingly living on the grave he was buried in.
Brount was the name of Robespierre's faithful dog which he apparently loved and was left behind when he was guillotined. The parallel appealed to Finlay it seems. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
12.5 x 11.5cm, 2pp card. An appropriated photograph of German soldiers celebrating a direct hit from their artillery battery on a house is sub-captioned by Finlay "Saint-Just Vigilantes celebrate a direct hit on elements of the Headley and Meulenkamp Division of the National Trust". Finlay keeping up his attacks on the duo who offended him by mis-representing Little Sparta as a "Folly" in a book. Meulenkamp additionally used the controversy with Catherine Millet accusing Finlay of pro-Nazi sympathies to attack him again in a Dutch article. It is fair to assume that Finlay chose an image of German soldiers here as a provocation rather than to show any pro-fascist feelings. VG+
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
156.5 x 11.7cm, 2pp card. Two quotations - the first from Cobban's History of Modern France which explains how the Great Fear during the French revolution was based on false reporting and a quote from an unidentified London newspaper that Jonathan Cape (who Finlay was at war with over the Follies book) were promoting rumours that were promoted by the Saint-Just Vigilantes group "a romantic Scottish nationalist group". Clearly the S-J Vigilantes were not per se nationalist (some may have been, others certainly were not) and Finlay here is pointing to the way Jonathan Cape tried to befuddle the argument by faking up stories. VG+
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N.p.: n.p., 1987
A standard COLOUR photographic 35mm slide with an image of a Finlay sculptural intervention in the landscape - here the work "WOOD WIND SONG" (for a discussion of this work see separate listing on cards). The work is to be found in Little Sparta, Scotland. The slide was prepared for a book "Art in America" (which is strange given the geographical location of the work pictured). VG+.
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N.p.: n.p., 1987
A standard b/w photographic 35mm slide with an image of a Finlay sculptural intervention in the landscape - here the work "See Poussin, hear Lorraine" (for a discussion of this work see separate listing on cards). The work is to be found in Little Sparta, Scotland. The slide was prepared for a book "Art in America" (which is strange given the geographical location of the work pictured). VG+.
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NYC: Marian Goodman Gallery, n.d. (1987)
21 x 10cm, 4pp. Announcement brochure for a solo show with a large scale installation of second hand clothing folded and stacked and placed under spotlights. The work hints at the removal and theft of the Jewish cloths of the murdered victims of the Nazis but as usual for the artist the anonymity is important - the lack of information allows projection of ideas onto the work. There is a colour image of the installation on the inside of the leaflet. VG+.
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N.P. (Switzerland): Furkaart, 1987 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp postcard issued with a badly photoshopped photograph by Marco Schlbig of Finlay's proposal for the Furka Pass (a "signature" of F. Hodler etched into a found stone - thus "signing" the landscape). VG+. Scarce....
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.. (1987) 12.7 x 8.2cm, 4pp artist's card which displays a drawing by Laurie Clark on the front of a row of trees which might be in winter and without leaves - hence the suggestion that they are without breeches. VG+. ...
Edinburgh:Demarco Gallery, 1987
21 x 15cm, 1pp announcement card for a collection of historic works by Beuys from Caroline Tisdall's personal collection one year on from the artist's sudden death. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
41.5 x 20.8cm, green on white offset lithograph print with a text that descends vertically - "Tree leaved with mists". The tree here is a willow and FInlay is not only reflecting the way the leaves fall vertically from that tree but also the similarity of the diffuse leave shapes to mist. SLight former creases else VG.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
47.5 x 30.5cm, full colour lithograph with a drawing by Gary Hincks of a guillotine with a flower growing all around it using it as a support. The text below by Finlay claims that both "the garden style called "sentimental", and the French Revolution, grew from Rousseau. The garden trellis, and the guillotine, are like entwined with the honeysuckle of the new "sensibility'." One of Finlay's most attractive works and self-explanatory from the text.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
22.4 x 17.1cm. light blue on white offset lithograph in folder. A concrete poem with the words 'Liberty Equality Fraternity / little fountain in three colours' in the shape of both a fountain and a crown. One of 300 printed. VG. ...