01 Jul

Posted at 17:25h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
17.4 x 11.3cm, 2pp, artist's card with a drawing by Gary Hincks of a wooden old fashioned fish box (where fish are packed in ice to be sold at market) and the name HARVESTER of the fishing boat that caught the fish. This card reproduces an image made for the cinderella stamps Finlay published for an exhibition and edition at time when UK faced a change in marItime law and the Euro was mooted as the universal European currency (eventually the UK did not join the monetary union despite its advantages for trade). The companion card GLEANER was published at the same time. This stamp was (theoretically) sold for 35p and therefore emphasising its British heritage unlike the companion card which was sold for 1 Euro. Finlay also did a unique work based on these boat names and registration numbers as well as the stamps. The port letters PD here stands for PETERHEAD. VG+.

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30 Jun

Posted at 17:17h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
10.3 x 16cm, 2pp, artist's card with the names and numbers of various boats involved in ring netting in the shape of the Olympic's symbol. This year was the Olympics and as in 1992 Finlay created this card which honours both the games and the fishing fleet builders from Siminins. VG+.

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26 Jun

Posted at 16:48h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
7 x 17.5cm, 4pp, artist's card which opens up to 7 x 35cm, 1pp. A text printed reverse blue on white reads "Andre Le Notre Lassoes Bernard Lassus!" André Le Nôtre was a French landscape architect and principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France and here Finlay suggests he dwarfs the reputation of his newly found enemy Lassus!. One of the "Picabia Series" and the last of three cards attacking Finlay's former colleague Bernard Lassus. VG+.

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24 Jun

Posted at 17:06h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
9 x 8cm, 4pp, artist's card with a reproduced painting by Janet Boulton of a model boat by Raymond Houareau, Finlay calls this a "Seychelles Stradivarious" alluding to the quality of the work done and the colour of the wood which reminds one of the body of an ancient violin. VG+.

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20 Jun

Posted at 13:19h in EPHEMERA

Munchen: Galerie Bernd Kluser, 1996 21 x 10.5, 4pp announcement card printed on transparent paper. The front of the card is an appropriated vintage image of two middle age people on a fairground slide. Gluck auf is apparently a regional greeting in parts of Germany (originally used by miners). VG+. ...

16 Jun

Posted at 16:43h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
10.7 x 15.4cm, 1pp, artist's card with quotation from Bernard Lassus from Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art which is deliberately chosen to make Lassus seem egotistic - "In the United States...

13 Jun

Posted at 16:28h in Miscellany

London: Tate Gallery, 1996
30 x 21cm, 1pp. Announcement leaflet for a concert in honour of Finlay's 70th birthday with a trilogy of new works by Gabriel Jacks. The three parts are Eurydice, Ring of Waves and In Prairial and Thermidor. A snippet of the score is reproduced. VG+ although a slight printing error affecting the text.

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12 Jun

Posted at 11:56h in Miscellany

London: Tate Gallery, 1996 5.5 x 8.5cm, 1pp event ticket and 10 x 21cm, 1pp compliments slip sent to Finlay's collaborator Janet Boulton as invitation to a concert in honour of Ian Hamilton Finlay and the premier of the "Wildflower Cycle". VG.

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05 Jun

Posted at 20:40h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996 11.5 x 14cm, 4pp. Artist's card with a drawing of fishing creels by Kathleen Lindsey on the front an internally a poem by Finlay based on Theocritus's Idyll XX1, lines 6 - 13. The poem describes two old fishermen asleep next to their fishing gear and notes their blanket is "a gansey stiched (it seemed) from net". Gansey is a style of knitting that was used primarily by fishermen with a very large and loose stitch. VG+. ...

03 Jun

Posted at 16:35h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
10 x 14.2cm, 1pp, artist's card with quotation from Bernard Lassus in Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art which is deliberately chosen to make Lassus seem stupid - "21 centimetres is 21 centimetres for me and not 22 centimetres". Finlay appends sarcastically "Remarkable. Who is this genius?". Lassus and Finlay had been friends (Lassus had written forewords for some of Finlay's catalogues) and this seems to mark a falling out (we at this point do not know what over). VG+.

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21 May

Posted at 16:35h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
9 x 9cm, 8pp plus card wrappers. Artist's book which shows abstracted images of sails with different colours and shapes of the reef ropes (the ties that allow sails to be pulled together to reduce the area hitting the wind. On the double pages here, the paper becomes the sail. These were also prints issued by Finlay and also an exhibition. VG+.

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17 May

Posted at 16:09h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
10 x 14.5cm, 1pp, full colour artist's card with a photograph of Little Sparta where garden gnomes (which are not usually found in Finlay's garden) are next to a gravestone sculpture that calls to "Bring back the birch". The slogan "Bring back the birch" was a right-wing law and order slogan now not so often heard demanding the return of corporal punishment (whipping using a birch branch) but also is a call by Finlay to re-establish the birch tree in Scotland. An usually humorous card. This example is hand addressed to Janet Boulton and posted with franks and stamps. VG+.

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