IAN HAMILTON FINLAY: TOWARDS LITTLE SPARTA. 1984. HANSJORG MAYER’S COPY.
Amsterdam: Print Gallery, 1984
30 x 21cm, 2pp announcement leaflet with one concrete poem "La plume est dans le jardin" reproduced on front and the horizon of Holland on the back . "Finlay's texts have gradually been incorporated into a spiritual environment. We are showing a number of them enlarged."
Folded with two punched holes for storage else VG. This copy is address to Hansjorg Mayer.
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. A DAVID. MARAT. 1986.
London: Victoria Miro Gallery, 1986
21 x 10.5cm, 42pp announcement card for a solo show. This card has two drawings - one each side - by Gary Hincks that is not reproduced anywhere else as far as we know. The plinth on one side shows a republican rosette with ribbons left with the words "A DAVID. MARAT". The second drawing is of the back of the same plinth but with gallery details over it. David, of course, painted the famous death of Marat painting, here Marat returns the favour with a simple tribute on the stone.
This is strictly an exhibition invite but it also could be regarded as an artist's card which was not released or categorised as such by Finlay. After some consideration we have left it as an announcement. VG+.
SECRET EVENTS. 1986.
Firenze: Zona Archives, 1986 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. Artist postcard released on the occasion of the series of “Secret Events” created by Maurizio Nannucci and including work by Ian Hamilton Finlay, James Lee Byars, Daniel Buren, Terry Fox, General Idea, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Sol Lewitt, Maurizio Nannucci and Lawence Weiner for Nannucci’s Zona Archives. VG+. Scarce.
UNPAINTED LANDSCAPES. 1987.
London: Victoria Miro, n.d. (1987)
12 x 15cm, 4pp. Announcement card for a group show with works by Lothar Baumgarten, Marie Bourget, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Chris Drury, Andy Goldsworthy, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Wolfgang Laib, Nikolaus Lang, Bernard Lassus, Richard Long, Martin Rogers, David Tremlett, and Herman de Vries. The front of the card is a model tank by Finlay and Ian Gardner "Panzer V (Penterai Semi- Reducta) from 1979. VG+.
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. 1987.
San Diego: Stuart Collection University of California, 1987
21 x 15cm, 4pp card for the installation of a new work by Finlay at the university UNDA. Unda is Latin for Wave and the work is sculptural. In the middle pages of the card a Finlay work (with Gary Hincks) is reproduced - it is not the same work as installed but the inscription at the bottom of the card is the same as the work on stone. VG+.
