NYC: John Gibson, 1975
15 x 10.5cm, 10pp - single accordion folded sheet. Promotional and announcement card for an exhibition of additions to the "largest collection of Beuys' multiple objects, prints, posters, books and catalogues". Additional to the exhibition the card promotes the Iphigenie-Set - a portfolio of 8 offset prints in a small edition of only 7 examples. All eight prints are reproduced in b/w on the card. VG+.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1975
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. The bilingual texts have different meanings: in French Flotte de Peche is fishing fleet whereas the English Peach Flute is a musical instrument as well Flyte being a Dutch cargo boat (sometimes a French version of the same ship). Finlay also often uses fruit (because of their shapes being like hulls) as metaphors for boats. This work later was recreated as a neon in which the two groups of words are designed to look like ships with masts and hulls making the meaning much more obvious. VG+.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1975.
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. The one of a series of "National Flags" created by Finlay - here a rectangle with cross hatching in green and light yellow. Cytheria is a reference to several things - the mythical country, the painting "Journey to Cytheria" which Finlay has created prints and works about before and less known a bee which has green and yellow stripes. The colours nonetheless have the feel of those of an island landscape (vegetation and sand) and that is probably the more likely visual correspondence here. A flag for a desirable place to visit. VG+.
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N.p. (Copenhague): Berg, 27 janvier 1975
29 x 21cm, original vintage carbon copy (on light green paper) of a signed letter from M. Berg to Boltanski.
The letter voluminously thanks Boltanski for his photograph and new year greetings. Berg tells the artist that there is always a room ready for him at his farm and he is looking forward to seeing him in March in Denmark.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1975.
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. The second of four "National Flags" created by Finlay - here a green rectangle with a skull and crossbones top left. Arcadia, was of course, a rural utopia, a place of perfection but in its most famous form it is in the Poussin painting ET ARCADIA EGO where a crypt is found with the inscription carved on it. It is a reminder of humanity's fate to die no matter how wonderful the life one lives. The "pirate" symbol here has the same function although the flag taken as a whole would suggest the viewer should be cautious. Finlay has created many words based on the Poussin. VG+
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1975.
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Artist's postcard with a b/w image of an Oerlikon cannon set above a text in English, German and French, about the siting of sculptures:
"Poised against a natural background of vegetation, sculpture can inform the landscape or a garden with a new and tranquillising significance which the beholder finds spontaneously communicated to himself."
Apart from the ironies of "tranquillising" and "spontaneously communicated" when referring to a faster than sound weapon system are dark humour, this is one of Finlay's many cards that show weapons hidden in countryside (hence a reference to the Poussin painting "Et in Arcadia Ego") but also is a "homage" to Max Bill the designer and architect in that the gun's hard edges has similarities to certain works by him and in that the quote is from one of his books on architectural theory.. VG+.
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Berlin: Edition Rene Block, 1974
10.5 x 15cm, 4pp. Announcement card for the box of editions in honour of Addi Koepcke. Beuys' title text work is reproduced on the front, internally two reproductions of index cards by Koepcke included in the box. Back cover has an image of the box and details. VG+.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1974.
6 x 24cm, 4pp (printed internally with asymmetric fold such that part of the card is hidden until opened). Artist's postcard with a drawing by Ron Costley of seven swans - the first 6 are made up from number "2"s and the hidden last one is a "7". A visual poem. VG+.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1974.
8.7 x 11.7cm, 4pp. Artist's card with a painting by Karl Torok of a Finlay cotton-reel (also known as a bobbin) tank (a well known way of children to make such toys). The title also refers to the Churchill Bobbins tanks (the bobbin from the reel that was found at the front of these tanks which laid tracks or bridges) although the model here is not accurate to the latter's design. VG+.
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Heidelberg: Edition Staeck, 1974 33.2 x 23.2cm, red and black on white card - an image of Beuys with a large hankerchief over his face sitting on board the airplane on the way to America to perform Coyote. The sheet has been misaligned - something that beuys accepted and signed some copies. This copy is, however, unsigned. VG+....
Belfast: Ulster Museum, n.d. (1974) 13.8 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for one of the exhibitions displaying Beuys' drawings in various Irish and British museums - here a Northern Ireland date. Text on one side, verso a reproduced b/w drawing by Beuys which has been signed in red ink by the artist. There is also a mention of a public meeting with Beuys and his (then) lover Tisdall. VG+. Scarce....
Pescara: Galleria Lucrezia De Domizio, 1974 15 x 21cm, 1pp announcement card for the release of a signed silkscreen print of Beuys during the "Incontro con Beuys" aktion in Italy. One small image of the work - which has a note of the public price in lire, dollars and deutchmark. The top right of the card has a further small card from the gallery noting the "dealers net" price - about 25% off. VG+. ...