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20 Mar PRINTS AND POSTCARDS. 2002.

Posted at 16:56h in Invitation Cards

Edinburgh: Ingleby Gallery, 2002
15 x 10.5cm, 4pp announcement card for a posthumous exhibition of prints. One work - STAR STEER - on the front. VG+.

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18 Mar SPRING 2002.

Posted at 23:09h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2002
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp artist postcard with a colour photograph of a batch of leeks with a printed label on them in Spanish although the word SPRING is apparent - a seasonal reference. VG+.

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18 Jan NOIR. 2002. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI.

Posted at 16:07h in EPHEMERA

Munchen: Galerie Bernd Kluser, 2002
10 x 21cm, 4pp typographic announcement card content of a 21 x 10cm, 1pp printed on semi-transparent paper (also typographic design). This inner sheet is signed in blue in by Boltanski.

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06 Jan NEW YEAR DEPTH GAUGE. 2002.

Posted at 16:23h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2002
15 x 21cm, 2pp artist postcard with a colour image of a painted stick (with the letter E as the pattern) in deep snow. VG+

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16 Dec LA RESERVE BERGWERK AUGUSTE VICTORIAS/BLUMENTAHL MARL. 2001. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI.

Posted at 21:16h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Marl: Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, 2001
21 x 14cm, 52pp plus card covers. Artist's book listing a large number of past workers from the three colliery sites. This example is signed on the first blank page by Boltanski. VG+.

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15 Dec CHRISTMAS ROSE. 2001.

Posted at 22:09h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2001
4.4 x 7.5cm, 4pp, Artist's card issued as a Christmas card - names of five boats Christina-11, Christmas Rose, Columbus, Corina-II and Conucopia and their port registration symbols are reproduced from a list elsewhere. The name of Christmas Rose is highlighted in pink. Other Xmas cards and prints have emphasis this boat as a symbol of the festive season. VG+.

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26 Nov ART IS A SMALL ADJUSTMENT. XMAS 2001.

Posted at 22:31h in Object + Paper Multiples

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2001
180 x 35cm., 100% lamb's wool scarf with embroidered text. One corner of the blanket is stitched in such a way that one corner is permanently folded back. The title "ART IS A SMALL ADJUSTMENT" hints at the minimalism of the work. A Xmas gift from Finlay to friends - there were two colour variations in the wool colour - dark blue and light brown - this is one of the latter. VG.

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18 Nov LA VIE IMPOSSIBLE. 2001.

Posted at 10:36h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Koln/Dessau: Walter Konig/ Anhaltische Gemaldegalerie, 2001 25.5 x 20.5cm, 208pp plus boards. First edition of this artist's book with 101 images (collaged from xerox images by Boltanski) and texts in French, German and English from people who knew Boltanski printed opposite to the images on some pages. The pages with the images are printed on semi-opaque paper and backed by black blank sheets to cause a ghostly effect. As ever the images in the collages are taken from the artist's own collection of vintage photographs usually found in flea markets and in unidentified photo-albums.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau, Nov. 2001-Jan. 2002. VG+.

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05 Nov NOVEMBER 5TH. 2001.

Posted at 23:25h in David Bellingham

Glasgow: Wax366, 2001BR> 8.4 x 13cm, 2pp artist postcard issued near the British bonfire night - November 5th. The tradition of remembrance of the "Gun Powder Plot" where Guy Fawkes planned to destroy the British parliament as a rebellion against the Protestant leadership. The word EMBER is shown in red on the card within the NOVEMBER - a reference to those bonfires. VG+.

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03 Nov SMALL FIRES BURNING (AFTER ED RUSCHA AFTER BRUCE NAUMAN AFTER. 2001. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 20:53h in Jonathan Monk

Paris: Yvon Lambert, 2001
20 x 13.5cm, folded size. Opens to 60 x 80cm approx. Artist designed poster - a duotone and coloured photograph of a cigarette lighter. This copy is unusually signed in pencil bottom left by Monk. Fine although folded as issued.
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18 Oct DOMESTIC PENSEES. 2004. WITH HANDWRITTEN NOTE TO PAUL ROBERTSON FROM STUART MILLS.

Posted at 13:37h in Artist's Books

Belper: Aggie Weston's Editions, 2004
19.4 x 13cm, 68pp plus boards and dustjacket. Place ribbon. One of the last books published in Finlay's life time which was based on collected aphorisms and one line poems taken from notebooks (blue jotters) in which he wrote down ideas and single lines. Edited by his friend and long time collaborators Stuart Mills and Colin Sackett. One of 500 copies printed. VG+.
JOINT WITH:
15 x 10.5cm, 1pp, compliments slip from the Aggie Weston press which has a lengthy handwritten note from Mills to Paul Robertson which talks about the enthusiasm for the book and how well it was received by the likes of the Tate Gallery. In original torn posted envelope.

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13 Oct CHRISTIAN BOLTANKI. 2001.

Posted at 14:34h in EPHEMERA

Gottingen: NORD/LB/ Stadt Goslar/Max-Planck-Instituts, 2001 10 x 21cm, 10pp (single folded leaflet) with a typographic design for three different exhibitions and installations by the artist. VG+. ...