Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press 1969
51 x 71cm. Printed b/w offset. Furnival's outline drawing of a Scottish fishing boat is placed above Finlay's poem appropriated from the boat number, port, size and painted name - here the boat is called Xmas Star. A companion print to Poem/Print no 14 (Xmas Rose). When shown together the two prints have boats going in a different directions. Very good condition. One of 350 copies. Druckgrafik nr 4.69.2.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1969
5.5 x 9cm, 30pp. Card covers with printed dust wrapper. Artist's book that takes the typesetter's symbol for "transpose" as a wave that moves through the various letters A, E, V and W - to eventually create the word for wave - and after all the symbol's typographic form is very similar to a wave shape. This work was the basis for larger three dimensional works on glass and also in stone and for public works. A small delight.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1969
21.1 x 9cm, 30pp. Card covers with printed dust wrapper. Artist's book with two small drawings by Margot Sandeman. Each page has a two word poem printed in red and green based on combinations of the words Red, Roof, Wild, Rose, Blown, Tile until the last two words when the word White is added. There is a tale of sorts - the building has a red roof and it is blown away, a red rose is also replaced by a white rose. In some manner the petals of a rose are compared with a roof of a house.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1969
14.4x 13.6cm, 2pp. The card reproduces a sand-blasted glass work by Finlay against a view of small boats in a harbour. The text is made up of poetic texts where boat letter registrations of harbours inspire each phrase with the registrations letters in capitals, the rest lowercase - such as roSY fAr blacK, PatcheD BroKen fAded, Green FainteR LoatH and lucKY fuLl. Photograph by J.w. Lucas. The first photographic card by Finlay and also the first to show a three dimensional work. Murray 4.20....
Paris: American Center for Students and Artists, October 1969
18 x 28cm, 42pp (mostly printed one side only) plus rubber stamped card covers. Slide binder. The first edition of an assemblage group artist's book with original contributions by Boltanski, Paul-Armand Gette, Jean Le Gac (here Le Gag!), Gine Pane, Ben Vautier, Andre Cadere, Alain Kirili, and Eric Dietman as well as others.
Boltanski's work is a photograph and text showing a supposed 13 of 1,000 roses planted at the American centre on 9th of October 1969 by Boltanski, the other 987, it is claimed, will be planted in Dijon on 20th of November 1969. These claims are probably spurious.
The other contributions are significant and some copies were signed and numbered by Dietman but this is not one of them.
This example is in very good condition and the book is very rare. It is not mentioned to our knowledge in any Boltanski catalogue raisonne.
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Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 30.5 x 38cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing Ian Hamilton Finlay's wall relief with the concrete poem rock/wave alongside a stone sculpture inscribed "HIC IACET PARVULUM QUODDAM EX AQUA LONGIORE EXCERPTUM" (HERE LIES A SMALL BREAK IN THE WATER). This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...
Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 30.8 x 38cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing a close up of the signpost in FInlay's garden at Little Sparta - each of the signs has a different form of the word "net" eg "salmon net", "drift net" and as can be seen here "herring net" but the final sign reads "planet". This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...
Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 38 x 35cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing the signpost in Finlay's garden at Little Sparta - each of the signs has a different form of the word "net" eg ""salmon net", "drift net" and as can be seen here "trawl net" but the final sign reads "planet". This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...
Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 30.5 x 38cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing Ian Hamilton Finlay's wall relief with the concrete poem rock/wave. The words seem to form a wave that crashes onto the rocks and breaks up. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...
Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 30.5 x 30.8cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a portion of a Ian Hamilton Finlay wall relief with the concrete poem rock/wave. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...
Heidelberg: Edition Tangent, 1969
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp offset. A printed edition in the form of an artist's postcard - this example being signed and hand addressed by Beuys with lengthy signed note to Dieter Schnebel - stamped three times on the front of the card in different colours - red, blue and dark blue. Unique thus.
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Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 38 x 30.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture installed in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, in 1969. The photograph shows the work Seas/Ease with the words raised up from the hexagonal back stone to create "waves" which are stilled at the middle with the word ease. One of a number of such prints issued by Finlay in collaboration with Ronald Gunn. The photographer's copyright stamp is found on the back of the photograph. VG+. ...