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FIVE FINIALS. 1992.

paul robertson — Fri, 10 Jan 1992 17:36:21 +0000

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PROPOSAL FOR A PAIR OF GATE PIERS AND FINIALS. 1990.

paul robertson — Wed, 25 Jul 1990 15:48:15 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1990

42.2 x 14.7cm (folded size) offset lithograph which when open displays the elevations of the finials - drawn by Andrew Townsend- a note on the outside of the card points to the "pineapple" finials visually being like fragmentation grenades and that the use of brick and stone being a poetic metaphor of the philosophies of Terror and Virtue during the French Revolution. One of 250 copies made. VG+.

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THE SACRAMENTO PROPOSAL. SCULPTURE FOR THE 1201K STREET OFFICE TOWER. 1990.

paul robertson — Sun, 13 May 1990 18:18:30 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
29.6 x 21cm, 4pp folded sheet with a proposal for a walled pool with "granite, water and white neon". Finlay notes "the proposed sculpture treats the building's entrance hall as an atrium: it brings the 'clouds' (in five languages, including Spanish) down through the distinctive tower and dome, to be reflected in the pool. There is a reproduced colour drawing of the pool in plan and in side by Andrew Townsend. VG+.

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INTO THE FOREST. 1989.

paul robertson — Wed, 13 Sep 1989 17:58:48 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
10.0 x 12.4cm, 8pp folded card with a proposal for a stone pathway 16'8" x 12" x 3" where the top of the stone becomes gradually more pitted from a smooth start. The inside of the card has a drawing of the proposed stonework by Andrew Townsend. VG+.

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INTO THE FOREST. 1989.

paul robertson — Thu, 13 Jul 1989 18:11:25 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
29.6 x 21cm, 4pp folded sheet with a proposal for a colour brick wall in green amongst a group of trees. Finlay takes the idea from Theocritus's Idylls "a line of green among the trees" and creates a work of land art in a modern garden in Athens. There is a drawing of the installation by Andrew Townsend. VG+.

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PEAR (THOMAS JEFFERSON’S GARDEN BOOK). 1986.

paul robertson — Sun, 09 Mar 1986 10:05:47 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1986

9 x 10.5cm, 4pp artist's card with a line drawing of a pear by Stephanie Kedik on the front, and internally two poems:

very fine

late cherry

fine late

large pear

The poems reference texts in Thomas Jefferson's garden as noted in the book he wrote in 1769. Pears and cherries were important to the President and he delighted in growing both. VG+.

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TREE COLUMN-BASE “SAINT-JUST”. 1983.

paul robertson — Sun, 03 Jul 1983 21:38:27 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1983

12.4 x 15.2cm, 1pp. A drawing of an installation of one of Finlay's Tree Column-Base dedicated to the French revolutionary Saint-Just in the garden of Little Sparta. Finlay notes that the tree is a Silver Birch (which has a noble and straight growing trunk) and that the plants around the base are strawberries (a passionate fruit one might argue due to colour and flavour). The base was an unturned capital of a Doric pilaster. Together this represents the character of the young incorruptible. The drawing was by Andrew Townsend. VG+.

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