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07 Oct DUSTWRAPPER FOR DOMESTIC PENSEES WITH NOTE BY STUART MILLS. 2004. WITH RUBBER STAMPED ENVELOPE.

Posted at 12:34h in Miscellany

Belper: Aggie Weston's Editions, 2004
19 x 13cm, folded single printed dustjacket for the book edited by Stuart Mills of content of Finlay's notebooks. This was sent to Paul Robertson by Mills with a post-it note on the back with the words "Covers, Have you found the card yet?" and an arrow pointing to a sculpture reproduced on the back "The star in its stable of light". Mills knew at the time Robertson had been searching for a copy of that card.VG+.

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20 Aug FLEUR DE L’AIR. HORLOGE DE FLORE. 2004. ONE OF 150 EXAMPLES MADE.

Posted at 09:56h in Object + Paper Multiples

NYC: Nolan/Eckman, 2004
30 x 9 x 9cm, glass bottle content of olive oil and with plastic, metal and ceramic stopper. An unusual object multiple by Finlay where the bottle has an illustrated label on front reads "fleur de l'air.horloge de flore" and a further tiny label on back of bottle. This was one of only 150 on sale during the exhibition - all unnumbered or signed.
Sadly our copy at some point leaked the oil and the label has become discoloured with the grease.

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20 Apr VESSELS. 2004. ONE OF ONLY 300 COPIES.

Posted at 09:28h in Exhibition Catalogues

Chicago: Art Club of Chicago, 2004 14 x 14.5cm, 32pp plus card covers and red on grey dust jacket. Exhibition catalogue for an exhibition of sculptural works with the title Vessels having a dual meaning of both carriers of liquids (watering can, vases) and marine vehicles (which carry humans often). Twenty colour images of works with legends. One of FInlay's last exhibition catalogues. Only 300 copies were published. VG+. ...

17 Oct ONE OF TWO. 2003.

Posted at 10:08h in Jonathan Monk

Edinburgh: Show and Tell Editions, 2003
2.5 x 3 x 3cm (approx) wood and rubber stamp consisting of a reproduced image of the artist's right thumbprint. One of 65 signed and numbered (on a certificate) examples from the important British conceptual artist (and curator) Monk. Referencing Manzoni (who often stamped works with his thumbprint), and, perhaps indirectly, Warhol - the idea of the unique re-made as a multiple was never before more apposite as here. Fine condition.
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20 Aug PRINTED COPIES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC “CONTACT” SHEETS OF LITTLE SPARTA. c. 2003

Posted at 09:45h in Miscellany

Edinburgh: Gillanders, n.d. c. 2003
Four sheets - each 30 x 42cm, 1pp. Inject (colour) and xerox copies of the digital equivalent of "contact" sheets displaying over 80 images of Little Sparta for use by editors in choosing images for commercial printing. Folded and with punch holes for storage else Vg. Some images never before seen in print.

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14 Jun PHOTO SOUVENIR (MEXICO CITY). 2003. UNIQUE WORK.

Posted at 09:30h in Jonathan Monk

Two colour photographs (both 21 x 29.7cm)) and two 35mm colour slides. Signed certificate with instructions for display: "The two images should not be displayed within the same space. The work can be made in a number of different ways, either both photographs can be show, both slides projected (the projected dimensions are variable) or one photograph and one projection.
The owner of the work must decide how the piece is to be installed. For every installation a different rule can be followed.
Duplicate slides should not be made. Fading only alters the look of the piece, but not it's intention."
The work shows two similar but slightly different images of a lorry being refuelled in a Mexican petrol station. In the background are stripes on a wall which look somewhat like a Daniel Buren stripes work (hence the title "Photo Souvenir - which is a title Buren uses for his photo=documentations of works).
An unique work by Monk only ever exhibited in the "Secret Exhibition" show in Edinburgh in 2013 curated by Paul Robertson. VG+.

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03 Mar L’HOMME QUI TOUSSE. 2003. WITH SHAPED AUDIO CD.

Posted at 14:25h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Février Editions, 2003
20.4 x 15cm, 12pp (self cover). Printed on very thick card. The book reproduces five double page images from the artist's very early 1969 film L'homme qui tousse - where the artist is disguised as a mannequin (with paper mache head and in rags) in a derelict room and is clearly unwell - vomiting and coughing.
The film can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfJJwdD306c
The book has a custom shaped audio-CD with the soundtrack from the film. VG+.

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27 Feb THIS POSTCARD HAS BEEN INFLUENCED BY THE WORK OF JOSEPH KOSUTH. 2003. UNIQUE SIGNED CARD FROM A SERIES WITH ATTACHED HANDWRITTEN POST-IT NOTE.

Posted at 16:37h in Jonathan Monk

Copenhagen: Nicolai Wallner, 2003
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp hand made artist's postcard issued during a Danish solo show - each card having a different artist's name rubber stamped underneath the printed text: "This postcard has been influenced by the work of". Here: JOSEPH KOSUTH. The card is signed "JM" on the back and additionally there is an added yellow post-it note added with the text: "Dear Paul, Unique hand stamped postcard never mailed. Signed on reverse. JM>" An unique work with unique added message. VG+.
joint:
Original hand-addressed envelope sent to Paul Robertson from Jonathan Monk.

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02 Dec FAIR PART. 2002.

Posted at 10:48h in EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Pistoia:Gli Ori, 2002
22.5 x 17cm, 120pp plus boards. Publisher's bandeau with title. Monograph and exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena with txts by Maurizio Marrone and Marc Scheps in Italian and English. Biography and bibliography. B/w and colout reproductions of works in the text and in plates outside the text. VG+.

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27 Oct MY HEIGHT IN HB PENCIL. 2002. UNIQUE HAND DRAWN CARD IN A SERIES.

Posted at 11:12h in Jonathan Monk

Toronto: Art Metropole, 2002
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp printed b/w postcard with a hand-drawn pencil line by Monk with instructions to "install this postcard on any wall with the pencil line six feet above the floor". A self portrait of the artist of sorts. One of 200 copies of this object multiple which is signed on the reverse in pencil. VG+.

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11 Sep 1 + 1 = 2. 2002. SIGNED BY MONK.

Posted at 16:23h in Jonathan Monk

Karlsruhe: Meyer Riegger Galerie, 2002
21 x 9.9cm, single sheet folded to 12pp which opens to 42 x 29.5cm. Announcement and exhibition poster printed on grey paper which internally notes over a flat sheet of grey that the first public exhibition of Daniel Buren's vertically striped paintings in Paris at the Galerie Fournier in March 1966. This leaflet is signed by Monk on the front in pencil. VG+.

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18 Jun UNTITLED. POINT D’IRONIE NR 26. 2002.

Posted at 22:39h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Paris: Point d'ironie/Agnes b, 2002
43.4 x 30.7cm, 8pp, A single number of the artist's periodical which invites a single artist to create an artist's book. This is one of two such publications by Boltanski in the series - he also did number 50 8 years later. The pages of the tabloid do not register other than a general shape when looked at in isolation but when one opens up the pages and conjoins the sheets one can see an appropriated vintage b/w photograph of an unidentified man and a woman. Folded for storage else VG+. Somewhat scarce despite the large edition size of 10,000 copies.

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