Little Sparta: Little Sparta Trust, 2007
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp postcard with a colour photograph of the gardens at Little Sparta taken by Andrew Lawson. This is the second of four such cards produced by the Trust as commercial venture. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Little Sparta Trust, 2007
15 x 10.5cm, 2pp postcard with a colour photograph of the gardens at Little Sparta taken by Andrew Lawson. This is the first of four such cards produced by the Trust as commercial venture. VG+.
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London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 2007
15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement and invitation card to the private opening and dinner for this posthumous show, on the front a neon work "Poverty, pitted with larks" is reproduced in colour. Addressed to Finlay's collaborator Janet Boulton. VG+.
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Little Sparta/London: Wild Hawthorn Press/Victoria Miro Gallery, 2007
16 x 28cm, 44pp plus embossed white card covers. Posthumously printed almost to the day one year after Finlay's death, this is an ornate and rather lovely exhibition catalogue which displays ten neon works each full page and with high gloss varnish, other text works in embossed raised text also on highly glossy stock and a short essay by Stephen Bann. Appropriately high production values for the very last publication from the Wild Hawthorn Press. VG++.
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Little Sparta: Little Sparta Trust, 2006 10.5 x 14.8cm, 4pp. A posthumous Christmas card from the Trust with an image of the Little Fields stone wall installation seen through the branches of a red berried bush - framing the scene like a Xmas wreath. VG+. ...
Koln: Kewenig Galerie, 2006 15 x 21cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a exhibition of prints and other graphic works that took place a FIAC just before the artist's death. A mailed example else VG....
Edinburgh: The State of Art, September 2006
34 x 28cm, 32pp, Single number of an art journal in the form of a tabloid newspaper with a double page article on Finlay by his collaborator Richard Demarco written six months after the former's death. As usual Demarco manages to make the article mostly about his own role in the poet's success. Folded for storage else VG.
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Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2006
19 x 8cm, 2pp card. This is the memorial card given out at the public memorial service for Ian Hamilton Finlay in Greyfriars Kirk. The front of the card reproduces a painting of flowers called HOROLOGE DE FLORE - which is a flower clock. Time having run out for the poet. This is, to our mind, the last of the "official" cards released by the Press although some were released posthumously as part of exhibitions or as fund=raising efforts. VG+.
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Orkney: Piers Arts Centre, n.d. (2006)
15.4 x 11.6cm, 2pp. B/w postcard with the title sculpture reproduced on the front photographed by Robin Gillanders. Commercial art postcard. VG+
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N.p: n.p., n.p.
17 x 12.3cm, 1pp card. Printed blue on white this is a later printing in card form of an early Finlay poem.
THE BOAT'S
inseparable ripples
The poem was one of the first two-word poems first considered in 1967 but this is almost certainly a posthumous reprint of the work but we do not know exactly the date. It was perhaps printed for a posthumous exhibition of Finlay's work. Until we identify it we will place it as an artist's postcard work.VG+.
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Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 2006
21 x 15cm, 4pp plus cared covers. Order of service for the Memorial Service held in Greyfriars Tolbooth and Highland Kirk on 3 April 2006. Attending I was surprised it was so religious in content as I had not perceived that Finlay was particularly Christian even if he sometimes used the bible as source material. The alter was laid out with many of his toy yachts, Alec Finlay, Ian's son, gave a moving Eulogy where I remember him saying fittingly that all disputes with his dad and others were now over. Some poems of Finlay were read and Stephan Bann gave a short appreciation. It was a sad affair, of course, as all such events are. VG+
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Edinburgh: The Herald, 28 March 2006
56 x 40cm, 30pp, Tabloid newspaper with an obituary by Moira Jeffrey of Finlay who had died the previous day. Folded for storage else VG.
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