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PROCESS PIECE NO 4 OF “STRANGERS”. 1970. FOUR UNIQUE CONCEPTUAL ARTWORKS.

paul robertson — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:58:10 +0000

London: s.p. (Collins), n.d. (1970)
Four separate original xerox sheets - each 27 x 20.5cm, 1pp. The sheet has a reproduced photograph of Collins and a text:
"This is to certify that the person shown on the left is a complete stranger to me and that he approached me -" and with the fields "Place/Time/Date completed by the subject of the work. The text continues "And I agree to participate in an art work by having four poly-Photo photographs taken at his expense which would become his property ad be attached to this form. Signed:"
Each of the four sheets have been filled in by different people and signed.
Each sheet has an original and vintage "poly-photo" (nowadays more commonly called a Passport Photographic Strip) of the subject attached by a vintage paper clip.
The photographs vary interestingly - one person has only shown the top of her head, another shows two girls together, a third has a man in a bandana hiding his face and the last an elderly woman.
Collins has tipped all four sheets together onto a single 58 x 41cm sheet of card for a home-made exhibition.
Essentially this is a collection of four vintage conceptual art works by Collins who in the 70s was interested in the dynamics of strangers meeting new people (including the artist). Such works are mentioned in Lucy Lippard's Dematerialisation of the Art Object and this is a rare find purchased directly from a friend of Collins who was given the works as a gift in the artist's last days.
All are in VG condition but are tipped onto the card using tape at the top in three places which have bled some o the glue through the paper to leave a mark.

PRICE IS FOR ALL FOUR WORKS AS A GROUP - BUT WE MAY BE WILLING TO SPLIT UP THE GROUP - PLEASE ENQUIRE.

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THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE PERSON SHOWN IN THE PHOTOGRAPH IS A COMPLETE STRANGER TO ME…. 1970. FOUR UNIQUE CONCEPTUAL ARTWORKS.

paul robertson — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:08:21 +0000

London: s.p. (Collins), n.d. (1970)
Four separate original xerox sheets - each 27 x 20.5cm, 1pp. The sheet has a reproduced photograph of Collins and a text:
"This is to certify that the person shown in the photograph is a complete stranger to me and I agree to participate in an art work by giving the following information:" and the fields "Place/Time/Date and Signature". Each of the four sheets have been filled in by different people and signed.
Collins has tipped all four sheets together onto a single 58 x 41cm sheet of card for a home-made exhibition.
Essentially this is a collection of four vintage conceptual art works by Collins who in the 70s was interested in the dynamics of strangers meeting new people (including the artist). Such works are mentioned in Lucy Lippard's Dematerialisation of the Art Object and this is a rare find purchased directly from a friend of Collins who was given the works as a gift in the artist's last days.
All are in VG condition but are tipped onto the card using tape at the top.

PRICE IS FOR ALL FOUR WORKS AS A GROUP - BUT WE MAY BE WILLING TO SPLIT UP THE GROUP - PLEASE ENQUIRE.

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EARTH LAUGHS IN FLOWERS, 2012.

paul robertson — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 07:43:11 +0000

NYC: Fred Torres Collaborations, 2012

55 x 43cm, 2pp - double sided colour exhibition poster with two beautiful floral still life photographic works by Lachapelle. Folded for mailing as issued else VG+.

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SUN FLOWERS (OPENINGS NUMBER 7). 1966.

paul robertson — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 09:33:09 +0000

Woodchester: Openings Press, 1966

11.5 x 22.5cm, folded sheet printed yellow and green on white - which opens out to 34 x 45cm, 2pp. A concrete poetry broadside which prints Johnson's poems - Flowers and Sun on one side with typographic elements and on the other side an image by SInodhinos of flowers full sheet. One small hole at the intersection of folds and some browning along the outer fold line but otherwise VG and one of the harder items to find from John Furnival's press.

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FLOWERS. 1994.

paul robertson — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:42:07 +0000

Berlin: Galerie Volker Dieehl, 1994

10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic design announcement card for a posthumous show of flower paintings by Warhol. A mailed example with franking and address label - VG.

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UNTITLED (JOSEPH BEUYS). 1970.

paul robertson — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 11:59:22 +0000

London: Angela Flowers, 1970
16 X 10.2cm, 2pp. Limited edition postcard with an image of Beuys on the front "explaining art to a dead hare" by Ute Klophaus from the action "Eurasia, 32. Satz der Sibirischen Symphonie" in 1963 printed in bright green. This has a lengthy note in German from an unknown hand in blue ink on the back, else VG+. Scarce.

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OMBELICO DI VENERE. 1985. BEUYS AT FIAC.

paul robertson — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:45:08 +0000

Pescara: Lucrezia De Domizio, 1985
16 x 22cm, 2pp announcement card for the exhibition curated by Lucrezia De Domizio as part of the F.I.A.C. (Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain) which took place in Paris at the Grand Palais from 5 - 13 October 1985. Beuys showed drawings incorporating dried flowers. Slight edge wear else VG+.

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A MEMORY OF SUMMER. 1971.

paul robertson — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 16:25:14 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorne Press, 1971
15 x 18cm, 6pp folded card printed with a line drawing by Jim Nicholson of a boat amongst vegetation. The card called A Memory of Summer has additonal information thus "In Trelew Creek, During Mrs Thomas Gray's Building of the Hobah" and below that

A ketch
In vech

A is a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (and thr mast can be seen over the flowers in the drawing) and vetch is a fast growing vertical flower which here is being likened to the masts of the boat. The "memory" is from a book called The Merchant Schooners" from 1978 - and refers to the boat being built in the creek hence the boat like the vetch grows naturally during the summer months.
This is one of 300 copies numbered and signed by Finlay.VG+.

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FRUCTIDOR. 1992.

paul robertson — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 14:35:03 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1992
11.5 x 11.2cm, 4pp. Folding card with a drawing of a still life by Kathleen Lindsley on the front of a basket of fruit, flowers and a crayfish. Fructidor was the twelfth month in the French Republican Calendar: named after the Latin word fructus, which means "fruit"
Each month in the republican calendar lasted 30 days and the weeks were repurposed to ten days each called decades. Further within every decade, each day had the name of an agricultural plant, except the fifth day when there was the name of an animal, and on the last the name of an agricultural tool.
In his instruction to the artist, Finlay has had same the ten fruits and flowers and animal included in the basket as in the names of the last decade of the month (the last name of the decade being actually "basket". VG+

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STONYPATH GARDEN AND GALLERY SERIES: THE GREAT PIECE OF TURF. 1975

paul robertson — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 15:45:46 +0000

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1975.

15.2 x 20cm, 2pp. A photograph of a garden stone plaque with Albert Durer's well known monogram. Title of the work is after Durer's famous watercolour painting "The Great Piece of Turf" from 1503 which shows a bunch of wild flowers. The placing of the plaque is like most sitings in Stonypath (now Little Sparta) great considered and the photograph shows how it is next to a group of uncultured wild plants. Photo by Michael McQueen, the sculpture who worked to Finlay's instruction was John Andrew. This was the first of three cards which all show garden scenes. VG+.

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KUNSTEHALLE BERN. 1976.

paul robertson — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 11:14:44 +0000

Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1976

100 x 64cm, full colour offset lithographic exhibition poster with a reproduction of a painting by Brus of flowers and chips in a landscape. Rather attractive. Folded for mailing else VG.

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PRECIS DE COMPOSITION TRAVAUX INCORRIGIBLES. 1988. LARGE FORMAT ANNOUNCEMENT CARD.

paul robertson — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:20:44 +0000

Paris: Galerie Daniel Templon, 1988

21 x 30cm, 2pp announcement card with a full colour reproduction of a Buren photograph of flowers on the front, verso gallery details. An unmailed example of this oversized card – VG+.

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