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20 Jun A FULL-RIGGED SHIP, IN THE MANNER OF FUSELI. 1971. ONE OF 300 SIGNED AND NUMBERED PRINTS IN FOLDER.

Posted at 20:41h in Prints + Posters

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
25.5 x 20.5cm, 6pp white folder with colophon. Laid in is an original lithograph of 'A Full-Rigged Ship in the manner of Fuseli. The Archangel of Archangel' which is drawn as a concrete and visual poem. The ascending lines for the word Archangel are curved upwards (the florid styling being reminiscent of some of Henry Fuseli's work although not all). The owrd becomes the ship itself.
This copy is signed and numbered by Finlay on the cover as part of the limited edition of 300 copies. Murray 5.28

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18 Jun POLYETYLEEN TAS MET VILTPLASTIEK. 1971.

Posted at 12:46h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Amsterdam: Seriaal, 1971
10.5 x 15cm, 1p typographic announcement card for the well known object multiple - the large plastic bag with silkscrened diagrams about Beuys's theories of political engagement which contained a large piece of felt. VG+.

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14 Jun DIALOGUE. 1971.

Posted at 21:03h in Page Works & Contributions

London: National Poetry Centre, 1971
25.5 x 20.5cm, 6pp (recto only). The programme for this evening debate on "British Modernism, fact or fiction" between Bob Cobbing and Edward Lucie-Smith. The publication consists only of 5 sheets of stapled images of works by Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, dsh, Bob Cobbing, and one unidentified work and a cover. This is a very scarce item in VG+ condition.

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11 Jun A HEART-SHAPE. 1971.

Posted at 17:42h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
14.8 x 10.4cm, 2pp. Two shades of red on white silkscreen card - the drawing by Ron Costley is of a a flat red rectangle with a square patch with white stitching.
Finlay refers to patching time and time again in his work - La Belle Hollanaise, the harlequin works of PIcasso, the text of Evening will come...

05 Jun I SAW THREE SHIPS. 1971.

Posted at 17:33h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
10.4 x 14.8cm, 2pp. Red and brown on white silkscreen card - the drawing by Ron Costley is of a tall mast ship with three large sails - two of which have vertical stripes.
The title refers to the Christmas carol with the opening verse "I saw three ships come sailing in/ On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day/I saw three ships come sailing in/On Christmas Day in the morning"
It is not quite clear Finlay's intent here but there are three distinct main masts to the ship. The song is much argued over - given Bethlehem's long distance from the sea then the three ships are presumably metaphors for perhaps the camels of the magi or some other trio, but by the same poeetic process the three ships can be metaphors for the ship's masts here although it is a bit strange having three ships become one. VG+.

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05 Jun JOSEF BEUYS. HANDZEICHNUNGEN UND KLEINOBJEKTE AUS DEN SAMMLUNGEN: KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL + LUTE SCHIRMER. 1971

Posted at 15:15h in Joseph Beuys Postcards

Koln: Kunstverein St. Gallen, 1971 10.5 x 21cm, 1pp typographic design announcement card for solo show. VG+. ...

24 May ASSAI RECONSTRUCTION AFFECTUE PAR CHRSTIAN BOLKANSKI LE 24 MAI 1971… 1971. SIGNED & NUMBERED FROM EDITION OF 120 PLUS MONORY PRINT.

Posted at 11:49h in PRINTS

Paris: Chorus, 1971 17.4 x 34.7cm offset cartridge paper with a text: "essai de reconstitution effectué par christian boltanski le 24 mai 1971 d'un tableau peint par Jacques Monory en mars 1971 d'après des documents photographiques pris le 7 novembre 1970 au parc de saint-cloud." above which is an original b/w silver gelatine photograph tipped on. The image is a reconstruction of an earlier event that Boltanski's friend Monory had held in November 1970 and turned into an artwork. Boltanski recreated the work with different participants (other than Annette Messager). Signed and numbeed in pencil by Boltanski from an edition of 120 copies. VG+ JOINT: Paris: Chorus, 1971 17.4 x 34.7cm offset printed blue and black duotone - the original image created by Monory from the picnic on 7 November 1970 in the Parc de Saint-Cloud. There are differences from the original to Boltanski's attempt to recreate (for example the child in the right foreground carrying a long stick). This is one of 120 examples also signed and numbered by Monory. However this work has found behind broken glass and there are a number of surface scratches on the print. ...

17 May RECIT-SOUVENIR. 1971. ORIGINAL PAGEWORK IN OPUS INTERNATIONAL N4 24/25 1971.

Posted at 17:32h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Opus International, 1971
27 x 18cm, 136pp plus card covers. A single number of this art journal which has an original Boltanski pagework - Recit-Souvenir - a text with three associated photographs.
The text typed by Boltanski gives a history of the artist's grandparents and how they come to live in Paris.
The photographs claim to be of the grandmother aged 3, a samovar that she supposedly stole from her house when she ran away from Odessa to be with David Boltanski (the grandfather) and a modern photograph of the house they lived in. As ever the veracity of all of that information is impossible to be sure of. VG although the glue in the perfect binding has started to peel after nearly 50 years.
Reference: Flay Catalogue Page 56.

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11 May SAILS/WAVES 2. 1971.

Posted at 17:31h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
10.5 x 14.8cm, 2pp. Blue on white - a design for a wall ceramic drawn by Ron Costley. The concrete poem points to the similarities between the billowing sails and the sea's waves - it is very similar to the previous Sail/Waves 1 card but the line drawing is not in negative and the drawing has minor redesigned elements. Other than tiles Finlay also used this design in other works. VG+.

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10 May SAILS/WAVES 1. 1971.

Posted at 17:31h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
10.5 x 14.8cm, 2pp. Light blue on white - a design for a wall ceramic drawn by Ron Costley. The concrete poem points to the similarities between the billowing sails and the sea's waves . Other than tiles Finlay also used this design in other works. VG+.

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08 May CEOLFRITH STREET HANDOUT NUMBER FOUR. 1971.

Posted at 22:33h in Invitation Cards

Sunderland: Ceolfrith Press, 1971
25.2 x 20.5cm, 1pp. Offset lithographic leaflet and announcement with one large concrete poem RING/INS 235 presumably by Finlay (not reproduced anywhere else). Very rare. Murray has this under Miscellaneous but we have recategorised it as an announcement.

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08 May CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI MONTRANT L’EMPLACEMENT OU SE TROUVAIT SON LIT ENTRE 1948 ET 1953. 1971. IN NEW ETER NR 2.

Posted at 19:32h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Malmo: New Eter, 1971
29 x 23cm, printed envelope content of five internal loose sheets -- each 27 x 21.5. 1pp. The Boltanski contribution is a printed offset image of the adult artist bending over showing here his bed was situated in his room for the first nine years of this life.
Other sheets have original contributions by Paul-Armand Gette (Photograph of a tree stump and its exact location), le Gac - a written text, and Ben Vautier - an original found photograph of women practicing fencing which is stamped Ben Vautier certifies this to be a work of Flux Art (each copy had a different photograph). The final sheet is a colophon with a business card stapled to the card sheet and nothing else.
All fine although there is a slight mark from the staple on the colophon on Boltanski's contribution - all in VG+ envelope. A scarce item. Reference: Flay Boltanski Catalogue Page 54.

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