23 Feb

Posted at 20:50h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1989
21 x 14.8cm 8pp booklet designed and with drawings by Gary Hincks after Claude Lorrain. Finlay claims he saw a resemblance between a "coastal area in the south of England and Latium, the leafly coastal country of the later chapters of Virgil's Aneneid." The former presumably is owned by Thompson for whom the proposal was made. Each page has a water colour and a text by Finlay suggesting tree plaques, stone inscriptions and the installation of a "classical gate". Near fine condition.

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26 Sep

Posted at 14:50h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1988
82 x 54.5cm, black on off white silkscreen. A large print with a drawing by Hincks of a funeral urn draped with a cloth. The style might be regarded as neoclassical. The text below indicates that the urn contains the ashes of possibly someone who died in 1789 or more likely the French Revolution itself in some sense. Finlay produced this work in the year just before the bicentennial of the storming of the Bastille (which many regard as the beginning of the revolution). One of 200 produced.

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12 Jul

Posted at 21:16h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1988, 32.6 x 26cm, black on cream lithograph in folder. A drawing by Gary Hinck of the forest next to a pond after the original by WIlliam Kent and a sketch of one of the tree-plaques. Each tree scupture has either SIlence, Schweigen or Silenzio on it "calling attention to the peaceful surroundings". Sadly this print had a faint diagonal crease on the left else VG in like unprinted folder.

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05 May

Posted at 16:46h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1988
17.4 x10.1cm, 2pp. Artist's card with a drawing of a sculptural work where an urn is covered with a flowing material - possibly a shroud. Similar to the editioned print of the same name (which is in red and black) also by Gary Hincks this is a memorial for the Terror and those who died but also an indication of Finlay's commitment to neo-classicist style and his belief that it is radical and confrontational. VG+.

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28 Sep

Posted at 16:00h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
13.8 × 15cm, outer folder with printed tipped on label and inside a 9pp (printed recto only) accordion folded sheet with drawings by Hincks of the already existing memorial in Uberwasser cemetery in Munster for Annetee von Droste-Hulshoff (1797 - 1848), a 19th-century German writer and composer. This is second of two books relating to a proposal for memorial for the writer created by Finlay. Unusually for him both proposals both might be regarded as artist's books in this format but we have placed them in the same section that the WIld Hawthorn Press used for their listings. VG

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26 Jul

Posted at 15:57h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
47.5 x 30.5cm, full colour lithograph with a drawing by Gary Hincks of a guillotine with a flower growing all around it using it as a support. The text below by Finlay claims that both "the garden style called "sentimental", and the French Revolution, grew from Rousseau. The garden trellis, and the guillotine, are like entwined with the honeysuckle of the new "sensibility'." One of Finlay's most attractive works and self-explanatory from the text.

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28 Jun

Posted at 13:45h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
four gr 13.8 × 15cm, outer folder with printed tipped on label and inside a 9pp (printed recto only) accordion folded sheet with drawings of four gravestones and two plans of the installation for a memorial garden for Annetee von Droste-Hulshoff (1797 - 1848), a 19th-century German writer and composer. The drawings were by Gary Hincks. This is one of two booklets relating to the proposals for a memorial. Unusually for Finlay's proposals both publications might be regarded as artist's books in this format but we have placed them in the same section that the Wild Hawthorn Press used for their listings. VG.

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26 Jun

Posted at 15:51h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
63.5 x 24.6cm, b/w screenprint with two drawings by Gary Hincks one above the other. The first is a tower of army drums which leans to the left, the second the same drums but leaning to the right. The drums are a reference to the martyred young drummer boy Bara. Under the first drawing is the word CLASSICAL and under the second, NEOCLASSICAL. The secondary visual correspondence is to architectural columns. VG.

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16 Apr

Posted at 15:53h in Invitation Cards

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+.

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25 Mar

Posted at 17:07h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
58.0 x 39.5cm, offset lithograph print in original printed folder. The putative monument's elevation and plan by Gary Hincks is printed one above the other.
Finlay's proposal for the work included five straight stemmed silver birch trees planted amongst cobbles and a "tree-column base" at the bottom of the middle tree: tree-column bases were a sculptural innovation by Finlay where the tree could continue to grow (the base was a semi-circle allowing expansion to the back) but the base of the tree would have a permanent stone marker. The base in this proposal was planned to have the letter's R.L.S. - the capitals that Robert Louise Stephenson was often known by.
Finlay regarded the use of the birches symboling of Stephenson's interest in the Scottish landscape and the neo-classical base as a reference to RLS's childhood association with Edinburgh's New Town. The installation was eventually installed in Princes Street Gardens but the birches didn't flourish and had to be later replaced slightly incorrectly.
One of 200 copies released - VG+.

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24 Feb

Posted at 20:40h in Prints + Posters

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1987
77.0 x 62.5cm, full colour offset lithograph on paper. The reproduced painting by Hincks is based on a 1925 cubist painting by Juan Gris called Drummer. In place of Gris' adult, Finlay had Hincks turn the figure into the martyred "little drummer boy" Bara who died in the revolutionary war against the reactionary uprising in the Vendee. Here Hinck's recreation of the work is lighter and more classical in touch - even more heroic.
The image we have used here is from a publication - the print we hold is framed in wood and glass and hard to image without reflections - but the work is in VG+ condition.

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25 Aug

Posted at 17:01h in Proposals

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1986
27.5 x 50.5cm offset lithograph folding print in original printed folder. The drawing of a landscape by Gary Hincks is printed in such a way that the unfolded card reveals a proposed large public sculpture - an optical illusion of a "vase" shape cut out from a wall with "JJR" painted bottom left. The cut-away allows more of the wild landscape to be shown. Limitation not known. VG+ in like folder....

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