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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Little SpartaL: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
18.2 x 11cm, 4pp printed outer folder content of 4pp sheeet with the text:
The present order.
Order the present.
Present the order.
This is a "postscript" to one of Finlay's best known works "The Present Order" (with Nicholas Stone) which takes the original's text and reworks it. The proposal is also to be cut on an unworked block of stone selected at the quarry face.
VG+.
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Edinburgh: Fruit Market Gallery, 1991
30 x 10.6cm, 58pp. Exhibition catalogue for the retrospective of Finlay during the 11991 Edinburgh festival. Long essay by Edwin Morgan which also has a Spanish translation. Thirteen works reproduced in colour. VG+.
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Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery, n.d. (1991)
69 x 41cm, full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with a recreation of the painting "The Poor Fisherman" by Puvis De Chavannes - however the mast of the boat has had a revolutionary cockade been added to it. - hence adding a political edge to the image more than the original solely religious intent. The exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery that examined the work in some detail and responses to the work.
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Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery, 1991
21 x 19cm, 38pp plus wrappers. Illustrated exhibition catalogue for a show proposed by Finlay, themed around the famous painting by Puvis of the Poor Fisherman. Finlay had various new works created on the theme although the show also had other related works by other artists , the catalogue text is by Duncan MacMillan. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
26 x 18cm, 20pp plus card wrappers and printed dust jacket. A proposal for Floriade, The Hague, Holland where 6 different inscribed milestones were to be situated. The first reminds one of a gravestone and its text a reminder of death as well as of a journey:
MAN
A passerby
The drawings were by Michael Harvey who also drew the proposed plan for the site where the milestones would be placed between two trees in a row.
ix Milestones
A Proposal for
£65.00
1991
with Michael Harvey
20 pp booklet with dustjacket
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