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Variations (Kennst du das Land ...)
Variations (Kennst du das Land ...)
Variations (Kennst du das Land ...)

Variations (Kennst du das Land ...)

Artist (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Publisher (founded 1961)
Date1999
Object NameBooklet
Mediumink, card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions29.7 x 13.9cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017410
About MeBooklet containing poetry in German and English by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Ian Hamilton Finlay with linocut prints of fruit, flowers and maritime scenes by Jo Hincks. Black ink on white card, 4 pages, bound with orange thread.

This work is part of an archive that belonged to 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.
Das Gepflügte Land / The Fluted Land
Ian Hamilton Finlay
c.1998
"True Vine" ML 20
Ian Hamilton Finlay
c.1997
Variations on a Fish
Joyce Winifred Cairns
1979
Heraclitean variations
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Christmas 1987