29 Jun JAR. 1997.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
17.5 x 11.9cm, 2pp silkscreen artist's card with a drawing by Gary Hincks of pencils in a jar that are also propellors. One of the most attractive of Finlay's later postcards. VG+.
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22 Jun CURVED TO FLAT. 1997.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
10.6 x 14.8cm, 2pp artist's card with various boats numbers which create a sort of phonetic poem:
4 F43 BF437
5 A58
K CK4 BCK41
VG+.
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18 Jun EIN RAUM VON IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 1997.
Basel: Stampa, 1997 15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for a art fair presentation of Finlay's work. The front of the card shows a sculptural form of his SAILS/WIND work - the shape of the chair seat and back mirroring the concrete poem painted on the chair. VG+. ...
13 Jun RUDDER/VARNISH. 1997.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
17.0 x 6.3cm, 4pp outer folder content of two "cards" both 17.0 x 6.3cm, 1pp but one is a red and black drawing by Gary Hincks of a rudder and the other a transparent plastic with the word "Varnish" at the top. The plastic placed over the drawing reproduces the shine of the varnish one finds on most rudders. VG+.
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06 Jun IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 1997.
Wein: Herbert Winter, 1997
10.5 x 15cm, 1pp. Typographic announcement card for a Finlay solo show printed purple on white. VG+.
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05 Jun AN URN FOR NOVALIS. 1997.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
20 x 13.8cm, 2pp artist's card with a drawing (elevations and plan) by Peter Coates of the sides of a memorial urn.
Novalis was the pseudonym of Friedrich von Hardenberg a German Romantic poet - the urn has on one side the name Sophie who was the poet's young love (13 when they met!) but who died not long after before she was 16. The other side of the urn has the abbreviated Greek name for Christ in some emotional sense equating the dead girl to the godhead. The top of the urn has a stylised eternal flame. VG+.
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02 Jun ALMOST HALF HER LENGTH AGAIN….. 1997.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1997)
15.4 x 10cm, 4pp folding card with a wraparound b/w images by Dianne Tammes of two of Finlay's toy boats. Internally there is a poem:
Almost half her length again/extending mizzen sail & jib, the/glamour of two birch dowels/breasting waves.
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26 Apr IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. SAIL WHOLEMEAL. PRINTS 1963 – 1997. 1997
Dortmund: Museum am Ostwall, 1997
98 x 60cm, full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduction of the extremely rare Sail Wholemeal silkcreen by Finlay. An exhibition of prints from Little Sparta. VG+.
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25 Apr IMAGINED LANDS: POSTAGE STAMPS FOR A SCOTTISH REPUBLIC. 1997. WITH ORIGINAL TIPPED ON LIMITED EDITION STAMP.
Edinburgh: Morning Star Press/City Art centre, 1997
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp announcement card for the release of a "stamp" album released as part of an exhibition "Imagined Lands: Postage Stamps for a Scottish Republic". On the front of the card is a tipped on original cinderella stamp designed by Finlay. The stamps themselves were a limited edition. This is a very scarce card. VG+.
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13 Apr LEMONS WITHOUT BITTERNESS. 1997.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
17.6 x 20.5cm, 4pp. A drawing by Jo Hincks of a fifie boat: East coast herring boats. Inside Finlay has a poem:
Lemons without bitterness. Diamonds
without riches. Tabernacles without
ministers. Trees without song.
Fifies
Lemons are the boats, diamonds the fish which sparkle, tabernacles being the shelter below deck and trees being the masts - simple metaphors for the fishing vessels. VG+.
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02 Apr GEE DEES. 1997.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1997)
10 x 13.9cm, 4pp. Artist's postcard with two black and white photographs of a well known Edinburgh toy shop (on Lothian Road) and internally a text:
Atlantis, Xanadu, The Herspirides, Tar-na-nOg, Arcadia.
Gee Dees
The various places are all fictional and the Gee Dees are a well known model company - objects that are also fictional reflections of the original item. VG+.
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28 Mar KEILKRAFT PROPELLERS. 1997.
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1997
30.5 x 28cm, offset lithograph printed brown and black on cream paper. The linocut image by Gary Hincks is of three mugs and a (sugar) bowl which has three small boat propellors in it much like flowers might be put in the absence of a vase. The work is inspired by a Ben Nicholson painting - Three Mugs and a Bowl - the same outline of the crockery is used by Hincks but the propellors are not there in the original.
Keilkraft Propellers are toy accessories used in model making so it is plausible that they might be left in a cup as storage in a strange still life but the positioning of the three propeller blades here suggest they are meant to propel the three coffee cups in some way. The coffee cups therefore become boats and the drawing a seascape.
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