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Kennst Du

Artist Ian Hamilton Finlay (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)

Date1995

Mediumprinted ink on card

ClassificationsPrints

Dimensions13.2 x 9.5cm

AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG017196

About MeThis work is part of an archive presented by Joyce Laing OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend and sent her an example of each new poem print and multiple as it was made.

KENNST DU
Do you know the sea where the lemon-shaped fishing boats rock? Softly in the shadowy stern, the orange net-floats shine. A salt wond stirs the sail, a silver fountain springs from the vessel' s side. Beloved, did you know this sea?
Did you know it well?
Ian Hamilton Finlay

Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen bluhn,/ Im
dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen gluhn,/Ein sanfter
Wind von blauen Himmel weht,/Die Myrte still und
hoch der Lorbeer steht,/Kennst du es wohl?Dahin!
Dahin/Mocht ich mit dir, o mein Geliebter , ziehn.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wild Hawthorn Press, Little Sparta
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