Liverpool: Tate Gallery, 1991
60 x 42cm, 1pp offset exhibition poster with a reproduction of Finlay's Evening Will Come They Will Sew The Blue Sail on the front in blue on white and gallery details. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
10.6 x 16cm, 48pp plus card covers with printed dust jacket. Artist's book with four folded over pages that have one text on the outside that reveals the second text when opened.
Neoclassical Thaumaturgy
opens to
The gods fly faster than sound.
A monostich is a one line poem. VG+.
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Firenze: Galleria Victoria Miro, 1991 15 x 21cm, 4pp announcement card with one stone work on the front (GROVE - showing a camouflaged tank) and internally gallery details. Very slight ding to top left corner of card else VG+. ...
Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1991 25.4 x 20cm, b/w silver gelatine press photograph taken by John Ravenal in 1990 in Little Sparta and distributed for the exhibition Ian Hamilton Finlay Matrix 116. The gate behind him reads Julie et Saint Preux - a reference to Rousseau's 1761 novel "Julie, or the New Heloise" where the two protagonists are lovers at the behest of Julie's unknowing husband who invites St Preux to educate his wife. Information label verso else VG+. ...
Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1991
22 x 13.5cm, 16pp accordion fold. Exhibition catalogue with 5 b/w illustrations and an essay by Johan Ravenal and Andrea Miller_Keller. The works mostly relate to Finlay's mid-career interest in the French Revolution. Die cut for storage (as are all of the institution's catalogues. VG+.
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Keil: Galerie Sfeir-Semler, 1991
15 x 21cm, 4pp (folded single sheet) announcement on paper for a solo show, internally gallery details and one b/w photograph of the poet sitting on "The Present Order...
Keil: Galerie Sfeir-Semler, 1991
11 x 15cm, 24pp plus card covers and green printed dust jacket. Exhibition catalogue which could also easily be seen as an artist's book (although the page contents were printed as a portfolio of large prints - presumably preventing a smaller book being issued by the Wild Hawthorn Press). There are seven "definition" works by Finlay reproduced one per page. VG+>
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Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1991
Red 100% cotton sweatshirt with an image of a boat called "Little Little Drummer Boy". Finlay was interested in this image from the 1970s because the reef knots on the sails reminded him of the pattern on the outside of the drums used by the French revolutionary army within which Bara the "little drummer boy" was martyred. XL. There were blue, grey and black variants of this clothing multiple. VG+
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Edinburgh, Scotland: Morning Star Publications, n.d. ( 1991)
21 x 15cm 4pp (folding sheet printed one side only) with various epigrams by Finlay denoted as "More Detached Sentences on Gardening". VG+.
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Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1991
24.5 x 18.6cm, 6pp single folded card sheet. A supplement to the first catalogue raisonne published by Finlay's then dealer covering the entire range of prints, artist books and cards covering the years 1990/1991. VG+.
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Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery, 1991
5.7 x 6cm,1pp. Ticket for entrance to the title exhibition. Utterly ephemeral. VG.
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Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery, 1991
21 x 7.8cm, 2pp announcement card with a reproduction of Finlay's Evening Will Come They Will Sew The Blue Sail on the front in blue on white and verso gallery details. VG+.
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