Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 38 x 30.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture installed in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, in 1969. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce.
RONALD GUNNEdinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 20 x 25.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture (in extreme closeup) installed in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, in 1969. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce.
RONALD GUNNEdinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 38 x 30.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture installed in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, in 1969. The photograph shows a different version of the KY sculpture where the KY stands for a boat (being the code for Kirkcaldy) and the number 365, the days in the year. Additionally nearby tree trunks symbolise the masts of boats - the landscape being therefore compared with a seascape. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce.
RONALD GUNNEdinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 38 x 30.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture installed in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, in 1969. The photograph shows the work Seas/Ease with the words raised up from the hexagonal back stone to create "waves" which are stilled at the middle with the word ease. One of a number of such prints issued by Finlay in collaboration with Ronald Gunn. The photographer's copyright stamp is found on the back of the photograph. VG+.
RONALD GUNNEdinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 30.5 x 30.8cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a portion of a Ian Hamilton Finlay wall relief with the concrete poem rock/wave. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce.
RONALD GUNNEdinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 30.5 x 38cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing Ian Hamilton Finlay's wall relief with the concrete poem rock/wave. The words seem to form a wave that crashes onto the rocks and breaks up. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce.
RONALD GUNNEdinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 38 x 35cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing the signpost in Finlay's garden at Little Sparta - each of the signs has a different form of the word "net" eg ""salmon net", "drift net" and as can be seen here "trawl net" but the final sign reads "planet". This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce.
RONALD GUNNEdinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 30.8 x 38cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing a close up of the signpost in FInlay's garden at Little Sparta - each of the signs has a different form of the word "net" eg "salmon net", "drift net" and as can be seen here "herring net" but the final sign reads "planet". This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce.
RONALD GUNNEdinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 30.5 x 38cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing Ian Hamilton Finlay's wall relief with the concrete poem rock/wave alongside a stone sculpture inscribed "HIC IACET PARVULUM QUODDAM EX AQUA LONGIORE EXCERPTUM" (HERE LIES A SMALL BREAK IN THE WATER). This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce.
RONALD GUNN35.5 X 31.5cm, b/w offset lithographic offset reproduction of an original photograph of the first version of Finlay's perhaps most famous work. The lithogrpah is tipped on to thick board and with a title card above the image. A exhibition print more than likely.
This image is an important one because the sculpture (a carved wooden work) is installed in the ground in Little Sparta and the last time I saw it was beginning to rot away. I brought that to Finlay's attention and he told me "let it return to nature".
The work is the first version of "EVENING WILL COME. THEY WILL SEW THE BLUE SAIL" and shows the text next to a "sil" which is also a gnomon for a sun dial. This gives the work a different meaning from the later famous print (see separate listing here in prints for a long discussion of that work). The use of a sun dial visual pun emphasises the role of time in this work much more than in the later evolution of the idea. The photograph was taken by Jim Styes
Sutherland: George A. Oliver, 1972 25.5 x 20.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing a page from the artist's book "A Sailor's Calendar" as published by Dick Higgin's Something Else Press. The photo was taken by George Oliver and sent by Finlay to an Italian Collector. Label on reverse and photographer's stamp in red. Dated 29/2/72 in red ink.
GEORGE OLIVERN.p.: n.p., n.d. (c. 1972) 19.5 x 25cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing a carved stone found in Little Sparta with the word "Barque". One of a small number of photographs sent by Finlay to an Italian collector. The photo is believed to be taken by James Styles. VG+.
JAMES STYLES
