20 May

Posted at 09:22h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp - three colour screenprint with images of the Olympic rings on the two colour background red and blue. Design by Costley after Finlay's instruction. The card is a homage to the boat builders Walter Reekie at St. Monans where "ring netters" were built (a form of bottom fishing that was found not to be quite as environmentally destructive as pulling heavier nets over the bottom as the nets were much lighter). The boats are represented here by the rings and the blue is presumably the sea and the red a setting or early morning sky. 1972 was an Olympic year so the card was (unofficially) released as part of those events although those Olympics became the most tragic in history after the terrorist attack on the Israeli athletes.
Finlay re-issued a similar card in 1996 - another Olympic yearVG+.

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19 May

Posted at 20:37h in Object + Paper Multiples

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972
45 x 18.5cm, orange silkscreen on shaped card with additional triangular card both spiral bound to create a stand-up paper sculpture that resembles a yacht with sails up. This is one of Finlay's most rare works only issued in 70 signed and numbered copies (there were blue versions of the work also). Co-designed with Ron Costley. This examplee has a very slight bend at the top else VG. Murray places this as a print but it is clearly closer to an object multiple and that is where we have catalogued it.

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19 May

Posted at 19:06h in EPHEMERA

Fontainebleau: Musee Municipal Du Costume Militaire, 1972
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a joint show with Jean Le Gac.
On the reverse is an important joint text by the artists which stresses the reasons why they were exhibiting in such a historic museum:

Our work is an attempt to find in the present the means to transmit and preserve the experience that we have of artistic activity: an intellectual journey, marked out by relics (photos, objects, fragments of texts ...

01 May

Posted at 13:27h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Berlin: Galerie Rene Block, 1972
10.5 x 15cm, 1pp announcement card for the exhibition that followed the Ausfegen (Sweeping Out) action where Beuys and students cleaned up the Karl-Marx Platza after the May Day march. The rubbish was bagged and taken to the gallery where they were placed on exhibition along with the brooms used in the Aktion. The card has a b/w image of an earlier action with Henning Christiansen taken by Muller-Schnuck. VG+.

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22 Apr

Posted at 13:04h in Letters + Documents

21 x 17.8, 4pp (each recto only, stapled top left). Original carbon copy of a typed letter on red Wild Hawthorn Press stationery to Christopher Carrell of the Sunderland Ceolfrith Bookshop. A long discussion of the budget and content of a putative exhibition of works by Finlay. at the MacRobert Centre at Stirling University. The original budget and size of the exhibition seems to have been reduced to Finlay's unhappiness but he is willing to continue to create new work. Interestingly the costs to create the works are discussed here as well as other prosaic matters as to why some works are not going to be made - including a fear relating to one glass sculpture that "the students would kick it in". An interesting letter in relation to the way such a show was organised and how Finlay couold easily be upset when things did not go immediately as planned. The letter has some hand-written annotations by Finlay in black in and it is signed in ink by Finlay also. Slight wear but over all VG+.

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21 Apr

Posted at 22:31h in Exhibition Catalogues

Nottingham: The Tarasque Press, 1972
22.5 x 20cm, 28pp plus pictorial wrappers. Exhibition catalogue of show of concrete poetry works edited by Stephen Bann. Contributions by Simon Cutts, Ian Gardner, Stuart Mills and Finlay who has three pages of b/w photographs (4 images) taken by Stuart Mills. Slight grubbiness along outer spine else VG. Scarce Catalogue.

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12 Apr

Posted at 10:22h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Berlin: Edition Hundertmark, n.d. (1972) 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist designed postcard with two reproductions of rubber stamp impressions - one Fluxus Zone West by Beuys and the other Fluxus West by Ken Friedman. 1,000 copies were released and used in part for the Image Bank postcard collection but also there were 36 signed examples found in a limited edition "Ken Friedman Box" released by Hundertmark. This is an unsigned one in VG+ condition....

11 Apr

Posted at 16:46h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Torino: Galerie LP, n.d. (1972)
15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card for a show of films and object multiples - on the front of the the card is a photograph of "Schlitten" multiple - the Sled which references the Beuysian myth of the artist being returned to civilisation by Tartars after crash landing in Siberia as a Luftwaffe gunner. The construction of the work however also hints at an animal nature to the sledge, light and felt. Verso gallery details. VG+ although some corner creases.

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01 Apr

Posted at 09:14h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp - artist card printed purple on white with a "join the dots" drawing on the front which if completed shows a harbour scene with three boats that could well be the subject matter of a Seurat painting. And by the use of the dots Finlay also references the pointilliste technique of painting with small blobs of colour (Seurat being the best known of that art school and thus the card becomes an homage to him.) Drawing by Ron Costley. VG+.

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25 Mar

Posted at 15:29h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Luzern: Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1972 30 x21cm, unpaginated (c. 300pp) plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue which covers four solo shows including Boltanski alongside Ben, Le Gac and Fernie. Each artist has a section for their own works - Boltanski's reprints Reconstitution de Gestes Effectues par Christian Boltanski and Album de Photo de la Famille D. 19390 - 1965 consisting of 138 found photographs which Boltanski organised into a family album. Texts in French. Mild colouration of white card covers else VG+. Scarce. ...

20 Mar

Posted at 09:08h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972
7.5 x 8.6cm, 6pp (single folded sheet printed only one side). One of Finlay's most accessible and popular cards, the images on both sides by Ian Gardner are very similar only one is a path leading to a house, the other a wake on water leading to a boat. The text in the middle tells a story in very few words: "They returned home tired by happy. The End." As with many of Finlay's card and prints that show returning boats this can be seen as a metaphor for the end of life or just the end of a nice tale. VG+

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