Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1991)
9.2 x 7.6cm, 8pp plus card covers. Artist's book which has two definitions inside of the word Scud:
firstly, to sweep along easily and swiftly,: to drive before the wind: to traverse swiftly
and
to spank.
Finlay seems to have the idea of a boat moving quickly but also being forced along by its crew. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1991) 11.6 x 14.6cm, 2pp. Artist's card which notes the names and dates of the two child martyrs of the French Revolution. The border around the names shows two drawings by Laurie Clark of a war drum and a child's toy horse on wheels - to remind the viewer how young the boys were when they died. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991 10.0 x 6.8cm, 14pp plus wrappers and printed dust jacket. Artist's book with seven illustrations by Kathleen Lindsley and short proverb-like texts by Finlay, for example, "The wind roaring in the night is both stranger and friend." VG+ - although staples are a bit rusty. ...
Mannheim: Galerie Stadtpark, 1991
23 x 23cm, 12pp plus card covers and printed dust jacket. Exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of 27 photographs of Little Sparta by Martin Greenhalgh. VG+.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d.. (1991) 3.1 x 14.7cm, 4pp artist's card (asymmetric fold) designed by Caroline Webb for Finlay with the French word ARBRE capped off a the front by an ornate letter M to create MARBRE which means mottled or marbled. The card refers to the silver birch (bouleau is French for Birch) and the way the bark can be of various colours. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1991) 18.8 x 8.6cm, 2pp. Artist's card with a drawing of a guillotine on a platform above the text "A model of order even if set in a space filled with doubt". The killing machine is a perfect operator no matter where it is found. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991 9 x 10.5cm, 6pp concertina fold. Artist;s card with two paintings reproduced by Ian Gardner based on works by John Robert Cozens. VG+. ...
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
43 x 41cm, four colour offset lithograph with a reproduction 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.
This was a limited edition print issued at the same time as the exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery that examined the work in some detail and responses to the work.
There was also an exhibition poster for the show based on the same image and the cover of the exhibition catalogue and invitation to the vernissage.
Fine condition. Limitation unknown but usually 300 - 350 for Finlay prints.
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Edinburgh: Graeme Muray Gallery, 1991
5 x 1m, printed enamel lapel badge with metal safety pin clasp. The text is from one of Finlay's most famous works - EVENING WILL COME THEY WILL SEW THE BLUE SAIL - which was firstly created as a wooden sculpture in Finlay's garden and later was printed in two editions as prints. For a lengthy commentary on that work see the separate listing in this collection under Prints + Posters. Limitation unknown. VG+ example.
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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
9.8 x 7.8 cm, 8pp (printed recto only). A folding card with three short poetic texts by Finlay.
First meeting (Chaplinesque)
The hole in her sock
was his lovers' moon.
One of 250 examples printed. VG+. ...
Uthrecht: Centraal Museum, 1991
24.5 x 27cm, unpaginated - c. 56pp plus boards. A major festival of public art based on neon and light works. Finlay has a major neon work "C'est-dans-la place du Marche que l'on recontre le plus souvent les reclus" which was placed in the market street,. A quotation from Rousseau, the spectacular neon is reproduced in colour full page. Other major artists included were Jenny Holzer, Ilya Kubukov, Les evine, Lucebert, Bruce Nauman, Richard Prince and Sarkis. as well as others. Some wear to boards else VG+....
Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1991
20.0 x 7.3cm, 8pp (single accordion folded sheet). A scythe is evolved over three panels into firstly a lightning strike as a blade to a single S from the nazi SS logo in the third panel. Drawing by Gary Hincks. The forth panel has a long text written by a 17th century Monk Abraham a Sancta Clara who compares death as a reaper, a gardener, a player and thunderbolt which not only strikes down the poor but also the powerful. The alteration in the design of the blade not only reminds one of the origin of the SS symbol and the German fascist interest in Nordic origins but also the aggression and death that they brought to the world. VG+.
This is a variant on a very similar card (with the same name and text) which Finlay issued in a smaller size in 1990. VG+.
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