London: ICA, 1992 70 x 50cm, full colour poster with an image of one sculptural work "LA REVOLUTION EST UN BLOC" and Finlay's name. A print version of this poster was also released without the floating text. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992
13.5 x 9.2cm, 4pp plus end papers and blue laid paper wrappers. The poem is as follows:
THE HAPPY CATASTROPHE
Be
falls.
and the explanation on the left "The happy catastrophe" - Friedrich Schlegel's characterisation of the French Revolution.
The word befalls is split as if part has dropped off or down but also is a physical reminder of a head falling from a body or the guillotine blade dropping down from above.
Slight former diagonal crease on cover but else VG.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992
3.1 x 31.3cm, 4pp folded card sheet with a text:
DROPPING ZONE OF THE ROSE PETALS
in pink and
RECOLLECTION
in grey.
The colours reflect the petals first dropping, then the faded memory of their fall (the petals themselves also having lost their colour as they rot). VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1995)
23 x 16.1cm, printed envelope content of two cards - one with a text printed black on cream from R.R. Palmer's "Twelve Who Ruled" regarding Saint-Just's way to the guillotine:
Saint-Just stood up in the first cart, head held high, his neck bare, a carnation in his buttonhole, his eyes cooly surveying the crowds that lined the street. The old Saint-Just was restored who said, 'I despise the dust that forms me and speaks to you.'"
The other card is unprinted and blood red.
Both cards have been cut on the diagonal to create guillotine blade shapes.
Finlay's admiration for the purity and lack of compromise of Saint-Just ir reflected in many of his works. This is another. VG+ in like envelope....
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.
14.5 x 12cm, 4pp artist's card with two poems -
Everything Falls Downwards
gravity
and
Everything Falls Onwards
history
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1992)
10.2 x 10.2cm, 4pp artist's card with a line drawing on the front by Stephen Duncalf of a toyshop but in a deconstructed style that could be read as both a vorticist style or a cubist construction. Inside there is a text by Finlay:
vorticist
toy shop
cubist
music shop
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.
6.4 x 9cm, 2pp. Artist's card with the text:
The Flageolet's Surname
drum
A flageolet is a woodwind instrument like a flute - or a pipe. Often in the military, it was paired with a drum (a pipe and drum) - hence the flute's "surname" is the drum. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992
11 x 15.5cm, 1pp card. A drawing by Wes Christensen of a modern man and a classical Greek man both holding up a leaflet. The text below the drawing asks "Which figure in in Costume?". The card simply seems to bring to attention that modern dress is as much a common costume as that of antiquity - which is a tad uninteresting but there you have it. We do not know the exact date of this card - our best guestimate based on the collaboration is 1999. VG+.
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London: ICA, 1992 62 x 50cm, full colour offset print with an image of one sculptural work "LA REVOLUTION EST UN BLOC". A limited edition print released during the ICA exhibition - apparently in a very small number (according to Pia Smilig only 30 copies were released). This print differs from the poster released in that Finlay's name is not printed in large letters top right and the white unprinted strip is not found along the bottom (making the print smaller). Additionally the paper is a little thicker than the poster. One small mark top right else VG+. ...
London: ICA, 1992
21 x 13cm, 4pp folded invitation card for the private view with one bronze large work "La revolution est un bloc" from 1990 in b/w on the front. VG+.
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London: ICA, 1992
14.5 x 15.5cm, 28pp plus card covers and printed light brown dustjacket. Exhibition catalogue of ten large bronze sculptures most of which relate to Finlay's interest in the French revolution. Ten duotone images are tipped onto pages. The exhibition then went to Yorkshire. VG+. Minimal text.Endpapers have a short musical phrase which (I think) is from La Marseillaise.
JOINTLY INSERTED (AS ISSUED):
14 x 14cm, 8p accordion fold insert with a commentary in English by Stephen Bann. VG>
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London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 1992 22 x 15cm, 4pp , triangular shaped announcement card fpr an exhibition of small maquettes for sculptures. These small works are delights and one - Pyramid Beautiful Fanatical - is reproduced on the front (the card shape having been chosen to reflect the shape. The work probably references either Saint Just or Robespierre. VG+. ...