04 Oct

Posted at 11:12h in Photographs

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. ...

04 Oct

Posted at 11:09h in Photographs

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. ...

04 Oct

Posted at 11:08h in Photographs

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. ...

04 Oct

Posted at 11:04h in Photographs

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. ...

04 Oct

Posted at 09:32h in Joseph Beuys Artists' Cards, Joseph Beuys Cards 1960s, Joseph Beuys Postcards

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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03 Oct

Posted at 17:26h in Photographs

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+. ...

03 Oct

Posted at 17:22h in Photographs, Uncategorised

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 a different version of the KY sculpture where the KY stands for a boat (being the code for Kirkcaldy) and the number 365, the days in the year. Additionally nearby tree trunks symbolise the masts of boats - the landscape being therefore compared with a seascape. 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. ...

03 Oct

Posted at 17:19h in Photographs, Uncategorised

Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 20 x 25.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture (in extreme closeup) installed in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, in 1969. 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. ...

03 Oct

Posted at 17:14h in Photographs, Uncategorised

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. 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. ...

03 Oct

Posted at 16:22h in Page Works & Contributions

Exeter: Form Magazine, 1969 24 x 24cm, 36pp (self cover). This single number from series of magazines edited by Philip Steadman, Mike Weaver and Stephen Bann - here the tenth number which contains an article by Bann - "The Aesthetic of Ian Hamilton Finlay" which reproduces 6 b/w images by Ronald Gunn and two b/w lithogr[ahs. The number also has an article on Jiri Valoch. VG+. ...

27 Sep

Posted at 13:54h in James Lee Byars

Antwerpen: A 37 90 89, 1969 21 x 15cm, 1pp printed red on white paper. The typographic design announcement of Broodthaer's Museum Voor Moderne Kunst Department des Aigles Section XVII E along with the performance by James Lee Byars of "This is the Ghost of James Lee Byars Calling" on the 5th October 1969 which lasted from 1pm until 7pm. This performance pre-dated the work being recreated and eveolved at the Eugenia Butler gallery in the same year (the first involved an entirely dark room, the Los Angeles recreation a room entirely decked in red. One slight ink mark next to the Broodthaers' listing else VG+. Very scarce....

19 Sep

Posted at 10:10h in Artist's Books

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1969
12.5 x 10.2cm, single sheet of dark blue card accordion folded six times to make 14 panels. Each panel has a line drawing which is unusually not credited so perhaps appropriated from another publication. Each boat is dedicated to a friend or enemy such that one can discern Finlay's opinion of them or a wry comment on their character.

A Boat, for Bob Cobbing*
Barking Fish-Carrier

Cobbing as Finlay notes here with the * was a sound poet in the London poetry scene. Of course the entire literary scene might well be a "boatyard" of ever moving figures b(c)obbing here and there.
Murray has placed this item as an artist's book but it could easily be re-catagorised as a folding card but for ease of reference we have decided to keep in as an "artist's book" in our listings.

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