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Unoriginal Sins is an established venture trading in the field of the contemporary and modern avant garde movements from 1900 to the present day. We have a vast inventory of books, documents, artworks, ephemera, object multiples, LPs and other digital media as well as representing major collections from significant artists.

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08 Aug

Posted at 21:37h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorne Press, 1971
15 x 18cm, 6pp folded card printed with a line drawing by Jim Nicholson of a boat amongst vegetation. The card called A Memory of Summer has additonal information thus "In Trelew Creek, Diur Mrs Thomas Gray's Building of the Hobah" and below that

A ketch
In vech

A is a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (and thr mast can be seen over the flowers in the drawing) and vetch is a fast growing vertical flower which here is being likened to the masts of the boat. The "memory" is from a book called The Merchant Schooners" from 1978 - and refers to the boat being built in the creek hence the boat like the vetch grows naturally during the summer months.
This is one of 300 copies numbered and signed by Finlay.VG+.

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11 Jul

Posted at 20:30h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
4.9 x 14.9cm, 2pp. Pink on white silkscreen - a book-mark which one might consider "a book-flag" in that a book mark flags a place in a book. Additionally the text on one side of the card reads "windflow" and an arrow but when one turns the card over the word becomes "windflower" by the addition of "er" in the same font.
The card if placed on a stick to create a quasi-flag would be pushed in the direction of the "windflow" but could also be seen as a "windflower' flapping in the wind. An ingenious small card work. Typography by Ron Costley.

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11 Jul

Posted at 19:15h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
15.2 x 10.1cm, 2pp. Four colour (green, brown, blue and black) silkscreen of a drawing by Ian Gardner of a growing pot with a stick labelled "daisies" sticking out of it.
The wooden label becomes the daisy - much like in a Magritte a word replaces the thing it represents. A visual form of semiology where the interpretation of a sign becomes the most important and most dominant analysis of a (somewhat pretty) drawing.This example is signed on the back with :"Love from Ian" in black ink. VG+

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11 Jul

Posted at 17:46h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
16.8 x 12.5cm, 2pp. Duotone image of a toy boat made by Finlay on water by Dianne Tammes. Below the image is a two line poem - birch-bark/birch-barque. The former clearly refers to the tree and the latter the square multi-masted boat - but the word barque is an antiquated word for tree bark also. Birch bark peels away from the tree in large panels much like the way sail material is one single surface. The poem moves back and forth between the two meanings and the two visual parallels. VG+.

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11 Jun

Posted at 17:42h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
14.8 x 10.4cm, 2pp. Two shades of red on white silkscreen card - the drawing by Ron Costley is of a a flat red rectangle with a square patch with white stitching.
Finlay refers to patching time and time again in his work - La Belle Hollanaise, the harlequin works of PIcasso, the text of Evening will come...

05 Jun

Posted at 17:33h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
10.4 x 14.8cm, 2pp. Red and brown on white silkscreen card - the drawing by Ron Costley is of a tall mast ship with three large sails - two of which have vertical stripes.
The title refers to the Christmas carol with the opening verse "I saw three ships come sailing in/ On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day/I saw three ships come sailing in/On Christmas Day in the morning"
It is not quite clear Finlay's intent here but there are three distinct main masts to the ship. The song is much argued over - given Bethlehem's long distance from the sea then the three ships are presumably metaphors for perhaps the camels of the magi or some other trio, but by the same poeetic process the three ships can be metaphors for the ship's masts here although it is a bit strange having three ships become one. VG+.

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11 May

Posted at 17:31h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
10.5 x 14.8cm, 2pp. Blue on white - a design for a wall ceramic drawn by Ron Costley. The concrete poem points to the similarities between the billowing sails and the sea's waves - it is very similar to the previous Sail/Waves 1 card but the line drawing is not in negative and the drawing has minor redesigned elements. Other than tiles Finlay also used this design in other works. VG+.

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10 May

Posted at 17:31h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
10.5 x 14.8cm, 2pp. Light blue on white - a design for a wall ceramic drawn by Ron Costley. The concrete poem points to the similarities between the billowing sails and the sea's waves . Other than tiles Finlay also used this design in other works. VG+.

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11 Apr

Posted at 17:21h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
16.8 x 12.5cm, 2pp. Duotone image of a toy boat on water above a traditional form poem by Finlay. The poem describes the fact that the boat is needing repair and is somewhat old - and ends with a Finlay trope - a patched sail. Finlay had made wooden models especially boats for much of his adult life. Photograph by Dianne Tammes. VG+.
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11 Mar

Posted at 17:21h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
16.8 x 12.5cm, 2pp. Duotone image of a toy boat on water above a traditional form poem by Finlay. The poem begins with the supposition that the boat is real but by the end the sail is being used as a hanky (toy sails traditionally were made from hankies) and the boat "anchors by the water-lily". Finlay had made wooden models especially boats for much of his adult life. Photograph by Dianne Tammes. VG+.
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03 Mar

Posted at 16:29h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
10.3 x 15cm, 2pp. Red and black on white card with the text "THE SIGN OF THE NUDGE" next to a symbol that could be the prow of a boat or an elbow of a human. A visual pun.
This card was printed twice - this slightly larger version is the second edition and has black writing on the reverse.

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01 Mar

Posted at 16:26h in Artist's Postcards

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1971
9 x 11cm, 2pp. Red and black on white card with the text "THE SIGN OF THE NUDGE" next to a symbol that could be the prow of a boat or an elbow of a human. A visual pun.
This card was printed twice - this smaller version is the first edition and has red writing on the reverse. The second printing has black text and is larger.

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