Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
10 x 10cm, 4pp artist's card with a reproduced painting of bunch of growing poppies. Phrygia was a part of heroic Greece but the Phrygain bonnet was accepted as a sign of French revolutionary zeal and worn by republicans. A note on the back of the card notes that the red of the hats often "transformed the streets of Paris into lanes of moving poppies." Painting by Jo Hincks. VG+.
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N.p.: Edition Vogelscheuche, 1987 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp photopostcard with an image of Beuys which the photographer indicates was taken at Dokumenta 8 in 1987. This is clearly incorrect given Beuys died in 1986 (although he did exhibit posthumously). We assume it was taken at Dokumenta 7 in 1983. Edition size unknown. VG+....
N.p.: Edition Vogelscheuche, 1987 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp photopostcard with an image of Beuys which the photographer indicates was taken at Dokumenta 8 in 1987. This is clearly incorrect given Beuys died in 1986 (although he did exhibit posthumously). We assume it was taken at Dokumenta 7 in 1983. Edition size unknown. VG+....
N.p.: Edition Vogelscheuche, 1987 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp photopostcard with an image of Beuys which the photographer indicates was taken at Dokumenta 8 in 1987. This is clearly incorrect given Beuys died in 1986 (although he did exhibit posthumously). We assume it was taken at Dokumenta 7 in 1983. Edition size unknown. VG+....
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 "Great Piece of Turf" (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+....
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
9 x 12.7cm, 2pp. Artist's card with a drawing of a fence with the gate replaced with a booby trap of a guillotine. The back of the card and a sign on the front declares The Garden is Open for members of the National Trust. Snarky as ever. VG+.
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Amsterdam: Stedelik Museum, 1987
23 x 21.8cm, 12pp (self cover) exhibition catalogue for a solo show. Text in English and Dutch - being an interview with Demosthene Davvetas. Two works - one in b/w, the other in colour - are reproduced.
Wrappers are a bit scuffed and the cheap staples are slightly rusted else VG.
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Marseille: Galerie Roger Pailhas, 1987 15 x 21cm, 2pp typographic design announcement card for a solo show in France. VG+....
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1986
26.4 x 12.2cm, unprinted white outer folder content of two 26.4 x 12.2cm offset lithographs. The first sheet is printed on russet brown paper and has the sole text "POIRE" at the top and the second has "LOIRE" also at the top but this time printed on bright blue paper.
One of Finlay's innovative colour paper prints where the medium utilised is as important as the words found upon the page.
The pairing of the rhyming works Poire and Loire identify this as French themed work - Loire Valley and river being to the south West of Paris and Poire (pair) being a long associated fruit from this region (Poire Tapees being a long loved desert from the Vendee).The colour reflect the colours of ripe pairs and the bright sunny sky of the area.
As an aside the Loire Valley was part of the Vendee uprising of 1793 which rocked the French revolution until it was brutally put down by Republican army troops - and Finlay made many works about those events although it is not quite clear if this work relates to those events. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
13.2 x 14.2cm, 1pp. Artist's card with a drawing of a guillotine in red and a rhyming poem:
The French Revolution
Scorned circumlocution
"It depends what you mean"
Meant Madame Guillotine."
VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
13.8 × 15cm, outer folder with printed tipped on label and inside a 9pp (printed recto only) accordion folded sheet with drawings by Hincks of the already existing memorial in Uberwasser cemetery in Munster for Annetee von Droste-Hulshoff (1797 - 1848), a 19th-century German writer and composer. This is second of two books relating to a proposal for memorial for the writer created by Finlay. Unusually for him both proposals both might be regarded as artist's books in this format but we have placed them in the same section that the WIld Hawthorn Press used for their listings. VG
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Paris: Foundation Cartier, 1987 21 x 15cm, 28pp plus card covers and printed grey dust jacket. Photobook with nine full colour photographs of Little Sparta which have less emphasis on the works but more the views and countryside foliage. Minimal text. VG+. Scarce....