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. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
4 x 9.4cm, 4pp. Artist's attack postcard with internally:
Headley and Meulenkamp are being flayed alive -
Cape and The National Trust are growing ass-ears."
Finlay curses his enemies with imagery found in renaissance art and, in particular, the painting Apollo and Marsyas. VG+.
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N.p.: n.p., 1987
A standard full colour photographic 35mm slide with an image of a Finlay sculptural intervention in the landscape - here a tree plaque with a relevant name on it installed at the Château de Kerguéhennec. The work is called "Names of plaques, names of trees." 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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London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 1987
10.5 x 15cm, 8pp announcement card for a solo show of new and old work with a photograph of Little Sparta on the front of the card, internally gallery details. VG+.
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London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 1987
16.8 x 15.5cm, 48pp. Original printed green wrappers . An exhibition catalogue with 22 colour plates of works from the entire span of Finlay's career as an artist plus short essay by Yves Abrioux. One colour photograph of Loch Ech in Little Sparta as frontispiece. VG+.
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