Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1979)
10.8 x 7cm, 1pp, adhesive back ex libris slip. The design has an uncredited drawing of a Spitfire plane moving amongst searchlight. The text being a religious reference. The label was printed for an exhibition in the London V & A. Murray 7.19.
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London: Serpentine Gallery, 1979
15 x 21cm, 32pp plus card covers. Group show in the UK with the participation of Annette Messager, Anne & Ptrick Poiret and others as well as Boltanski. The latter exhibited Japanese Gardens I - V (large colour images created using models and constructed backgrounds). Two images reproduced (one in colour, one in b/w) and a short text in English. Sadly this catalogue has some contemporary notes made by a critic on a number of the pages but the images of the works are not found elsewhere to our knowledge.
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Groningen: Museum und Corps de Garde, 1979. Three sheets of black tissue paper mounted together to form the number "7". Folded size: 18.5 x 12.5 cm. Unfolded: 225 x 125 cm. Printed with the text "The Five Continent Documenta 7" printed offset gold. Very good condition. Very limited unnumbered edition. Please note that for this item we have used a stock photograph from other sources....
Göttingen: Stadtischen Museum am Ritterplan, 1979
15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card on paper with b/w image of the drawing Filzplastik (1963) on the front. This example is signed in red felt tipped pen by Beuys over the image. Verso publisher's details. VG+.
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NYC: Sonnabend 1979
10,5 x 15cm, 1pp typographic announcement card printed yellow and black. A mailed copy which was sent to Seriaal Verlag in Copenhagen by Boltanski (hand addressed) but it was mis-delivered and there is a a lot of post office markings, franks, writing and attached label on the back - but despite that it is still VG+.
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NYC: P.S.1., 1978
10,5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with the front in the artist's facsimile handwriting and verso gallery details. A mailed example hand addressed to M. Berg from Boltanski. VG+.
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NYC: Sperone Westwater Fischer, 1979
11.4 x 11cm, 1pp typographic announcement card for solo show of drawins. This is a mailed example with stamp, franking and typed address on the back - but overall VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1979 19 x 13cm, closed envelope content of twelve tags (each with the word butterfly printed on them) and ties which are to be added to growing plants in a garden to flutter in the wind and hence metaphorically add butterflies to any plot. Drawing by George L. Thomson. VG....
Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1979
19 x 9.3cm, 2pp. A plan for an architectural and garden installation based on the 1967 Finlay poem Cytheria is shown on the front. The various element of the poem are to be planted or inscribed in stone in the garden. Never realised this is one of the very first 'proposals' by Finlay but we have decided to catalogue it as an artist's postcard due to its format.
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Bochum: Museum Bochum, 1979
26.4 x 21cm, 52pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a group show initially at the Museum Bochum, Germany, and later at the Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy. The artists include Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Agnetti, Anselmo, Antin, Arakawa, Baldassari, Bill Beckley, Boetti, Burgin, Ian Burn, Calzolari, Carpi, Chia, Chiari, Fulton, Gerz, Huebler, Kaprow, Kawara, Kosuth, Le Gac, Levine, Mario Merz, Annette Messager, Robert Morris, Nauman, Nonas, Oppenheim, Paolini, Pozzi, Salvo, Venet and Weiner. Each is given a section in the book with one b/w image.
Boltanski's contribution is a series of five photographs "Le Recit du Pere" from 1976. All are reproduced along with a short text in German and italian.
Some foxing to the inside wrappers else VG.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1979
4.4 x 3.4cm, 4pp. Finlay's smallest folding card, this has a line drawing by Ivy Sky Rutzky on the front of a butterfly and inside a text:
A Red
Admiral
or
A.B.
Sadly we cannot identify who "A.B." is.The folding of the small card and its size however do reflect the shape and size of a butterfly's wings. VG+.
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Antwerpen: Ruimte Z, 1979
21 x 15cm, 6pp (single hand-folded sheet) black on grey. A "periodical" from the gallery (Nr 1) which announces a show of photographs of Beuys' Coyote aktion by Caroline Tisdall. Internal to the sheet is a text in Dutch "Coyote: I like America and America Likes me". Mild handling creases and a mailed, hand-addressed example. Else VG+.
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