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....
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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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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Franfurt: Galerie Loehr, 1972
16.5 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card printed on mirror card - on the front is a scene from the "Titus/Iphigenie" Abisfag Tullmann Aktion from 1969 where Beuys performed on stage with a horse. The exhibition showed the "Fitz Tv" and "Eurasienstab" aktions on film. VG+.
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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. ...
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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NYC: Judson Gallery, 1972 28 x 21cm, 1pp small poster/leaflet probably designed by Yalkut and with small b/w images. VG....
NYC: The Kitchen, 1972 28 x 21cm, 2pp small poster/leaflet. The front shows the information about the concert and a small b/w image of the artist standing in St Marcos Square in Venice covered in pigeons. One the reverse is a b/w poster for Yalkut’s video work The Astrolabe of God with an extensive design. Former folds from mailing else VG+. ...
Sutherland: George A. Oliver, 1972 25.5 x 20.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing a page from the artist's book "A Sailor's Calendar" as published by Dick Higgin's Something Else Press. The photo was taken by George Oliver and sent by Finlay to an Italian Collector. Label on reverse and photographer's stamp in red. Dated 29/2/72 in red ink....
Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1972
6.7 x 18.5cm, 4pp. Two photographs by Finlay of one of his home-made toys - here a frigate. On closer inspection one suddenly realises that the photograph is the same one only flipped so that the reflection from the water creates a visual illusion of solidity when it is dominant. Under one image the word "Fregatte" is set and under the other "Frigate" hence on the left the German and on the right the English words for the battleship. Hence by a simple rotation Finlay's photograph displays both sides of the conflict.
This card is signed on the back cover "Love from Ian" in blue ink. VG+.
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Edinburgh: Richard Demarco Gallery/Coelfrith Press, 1972 30.7 x 25cm, printed envelope content of four stapled short essays all mimeographed and an original collage by Robin Crozier (which is signed and numbered) and five offset lithgraphic prints by Fred Brookes, John Dee, Roger Palmer, John Roberts and Colin Rose as well as the inclusion of RING by Finlay and Costley which is also known as Ceolfrith Press handout Nr 4 (which was also released independently of this publication). This was the catalogue publication for the exhibition "Coelfrith Artists of the North East" which was put on in Demarco's gallery in Edinburgh. Only 300 copies of this publication were released - but it is very rare to find it complete. The outer envelope is a little browned at the bottom and with mild wear but internally all elements are present and in VG+ condition. ...
Berlin: AQ Verlag, n.d (1972)
20 x 20.7cm, unpaginated (c. 112pp) plus pictorial wrappers. A single number of this photographic and art journal - here Boltanski has two original contributions - 10 SCENES DE LA VIE ENFANTINE DE CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI INTERPRETEE LE 12 JUIN 1971 PAR FRANCOISE GUINIOU ET LET PETITS JEAN ET MARTINE and ESSAI DE RECONSTITUTION DES 46 JOURS QUE PRECEDERENT LA MORT DE FRANCOISE GUINIOU (EXTRAITS). Neither to our knowledge is reproduced elsewhere. The former being six b/w images of children acting out scenes from Boltanski's supposed memories. The second the same photographs and more displayed as contact prints from a film role. One is expected (one presumes) to see the latter as the documentation of the previous project and that Francoise Guiniou somehow died soon after the photoshoot.
There are other original pageworks by Paul-Armand Gette, Jean Le Gac, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jochen Gerz and Anthony McCall.
Not in any catalogue raisonne.
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