14 Jan

Posted at 11:05h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

NYC: Marisa Del Re Gallery, 1986
13.8 x 13.2cm, 2pp announcement card for the exhibition that began only 7 days before Joseph Beuys suddenly died of a heart attack on 21st January 1986. A colour image of a coloured blackboard drawing on the front and verso gallery details. VG+

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06 Jan

Posted at 09:11h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Bonn/Zurich: VG Bild-Kunst/Pro Litteris, 1986
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Commercial artist's postcard issued at the time of Beuys' sudden death with the work "Fox" (an oil on paper painting) on the front in colour, verso standard postcard design. VG+.

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24 Dec

Posted at 09:55h in Letters + Documents

Little Sparta: Finlay, 1985
Standard C5 white postal envelope to Christopher Barker - the franking cannot be read but probably December 1985. Notable for the red rubber stamp impression added by Finlay to the front: "STRATHCLYDE REGION HAS ABOLISHED LANGUAGE - ABOLISH STRATHCLYDE REGION". Return address stamping on back. A little roughly opened and slightly grubby. .

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19 Dec

Posted at 11:21h in POSTERS

Dijon: Consortium à Dijon, 1985 73 x 123cmm full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster for the Boltanski solo exhibition with an installation view above museum text. VG+....

17 Dec

Posted at 09:41h in Letters + Documents

30 x 21cm, hand typed letter on printed letterhead paper.
A letter sent by Finlay to Christopher Barker containing two original "1 one-line poems". These were sent to be included in an anthology of poetry and photographs edited by the latter.
The first is thus:

Classical Warfare
The capital fell to an enemy column

which is a wonderful joke based on the parts of Greek columns as well as a cold statement about defeat in war.
The second is:

CLassical biography
No man is a hero to his valley.

Both are from "Monostichs de la Guerre de Petite-Sparta" a publication we have not yet seen under that title (which references the Littlle Spara Wars).
The letter is signed in black in at the bottom by Finlay in full.
The stationery as ever with Finlay is amusing in itself - the text under the address reads "Neo-classical Flutings, Columns & Small Arms,/Groves & Emplacements, Sacred & Profane" in red. At the bottom there is a quote from Tibullus about the efforts of bees.
An important and document with perhaps unique content.

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17 Dec

Posted at 04:53h in Letters + Documents

30 x 21cm, hand typed letter on printed letterhead paper.
A letter sent by Finlay to Christopher Barker dated 17.12.85
The letter notes the enclosure of a contribution from Finlay to an anthology - the actual enclosure is to be found here in this section. This letter notes that an alternative offering might be made if Barker asks but Finlay would prefer those. Finlay clearly knows Barker as he note the enclosure also of a "very small Christmas Box, of a neoclassical nature, for your Mother."
The letter is signed in full in black ink with a PS "that underlined words in the manuscript are to be italicised".
The same stationery design as used in the contribution is here but printed in green.

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15 Dec

Posted at 10:27h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1985
9.4 x 20.4cm, 4pp card with two poems - one by Luois Zukofsky which was printed in POTH 6:
The
desire
of
towing
Conjoined with Finlay's
The
attire
of
snowing

The first refers to a barge being pulled along and the forces creating a desire to be somewhere else, the latter is a description of snow covering everything after a fall.
This example has a hand written Christmas greeting from Finlay on the left side of the inner card. VG+.

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