Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1997)
6.6 x 6.8cm, 4pp. Artist's postcard a drawing by Gary Hincks of smoke stacks from boats each with a number.
A poem internally reads:
Waves endless
Numbers numberless
Waves numberless
Numbers endless
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N.p.: s.p. (Boulton), n.d.
28 x 21cm, full colour giclee print mounted on board of the original watercolour that Finlay commissioned from Boulton for his artist's card and print Thonier. Possibly used in an exhibition. VG+.
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Edinburgh: Morning Star Press, 2002
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card for the Anthology assemblage publication which Finlay contributed to along with others such as Lawrence Weiner, Richard Tuttle, Thomas A. Clark, Pavel Buchler, David Bellingham, Jackson Mac Low and others. On the front an original photograph with one of the name tags included in the book stitched onto a shirt. VG+. Scarce.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
11.5 x 12.8cm, 4pp card with a drawing of a Zulu boat by Gary Hincks. The sails of the ship are black (reflecting the name of the type of boat). Internally Finlay has two texts:
ZULU
Feathers
of cloud
at the masthead
and
Feathers
of foam
at the waist.
The top and bottom of the moving ship show similar features. VG+.
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N.p.: N.p., 1997 29.5 x 17.5cm, 4pp. What appears to be a magazine or book insert published soon after Byars' death as homage. The middle pages are printed in gold with no text. The holes for staples that presumably held this sheet in place in the middle of another publication can be seen else VG+. We would appreciate any information as to the original source of this publication. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
17.5 x 20.4cm, 4pp, card printed black on cream with the internal text with a landscape linocut by Jo Hincks.
Internally there is a text:
K S-R
Everything has been turned into wood and shaped with an axe till it roughly resembles itself. Wooden roads, wooden colours, wooden suns, wooden pine-needles. A wooden field with wooden stoocks like sails on a sea.
K. S-R. is Karl Schmidt-Rottluff the German expressionist who formed the Die Brücke group. Late in his life he made almost exclusively landscape paintings that reflected his angular style (which looks much like the unsubtle edges of woodcuts). VG+.
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Glasgow: Wax366, 1997
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard with a colour photograph of a British speed camera which has been painted in camouflage colours on the front. Jointly created with Jim Hamlyn. VG+.
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Dortmund: Museum am Ostwall, 1997
10 x 21cm, 18pp (single sheet accordion folded) exhibition announcement/handout/catalogue with text on individual works and four full colour images of prints and works and one b/w photographic portrait of Finlay and an image of Little Sparta. VG+.
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Dortmund: Museum am Ostwall, 1997
21 x 10cm, 4pp announcement card and invite to opening for a solo show, Sail Wholemeal print reproduced on the front. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
11 x 22cm, 20pp plus two fold outs and leaf patterned boards with tipped on label. A proposal for the grounds of London's Serpentine Gallery which consisted of semi-circle of 8 benches with plaques and a single central plaque in the Meadow Area. The texts are all translations from Vigil talking of a distant view - but each translation takes on different nuances of the original. Translations are by Finlay himself with Jessie Sheeler, Samuel Palmer, C Day Lewis, W F Jackson Knight, Harry Gilonis, John Caryll, and Charles Calverley. Virgil's own Latin quotation is also present on the final bench.
A further plaque again quotes Virgil: "Home, goats, home, replete, the evening star is coming." - a quotation that in which one recognises aspects of Finlay's most famous work - "Evening will come, they sew the blue sail."
A massive carved circular paving stone is also proposed to be placed at the entrance to the gallery listing the latin names of trees that are found near to the gallery. Lettering was drawn by Peter Coates and Andrew Whittle. Maps and cover paper by Gary Hincks.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
8.4 x 9cm, single folded card printed black on brown with the internal text : "FOLDING THE LAST SAIL". The card colour is reminiscent of certain sails that take on their colour from the oils that are used to keep them flexible. The act of folding a sail to store it away or sometimes to wrap a dead body in it is reflected in the folding of the card. This work is after an earlier work by Thomas A. Clark and Laurie Clark. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
14.8 x 10cm, single folded sheet to create a 4pp card with a drawing by Gary Hincks of a model boat, Inside Finlay describes a model sailboat on chair, propped amongst cushions with a tape-machine playing the sound of wind, rain and ocean waves. The "event" is a conceptual sailing. VG+.
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