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Neun Vorschläge Für Einen Wald (Nine Proposals for a Forest)
Neun Vorschläge Für Einen Wald (Nine Proposals for a Forest)
Neun Vorschläge Für Einen Wald (Nine Proposals for a Forest)

Neun Vorschläge Für Einen Wald (Nine Proposals for a Forest)

Artist (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Publisher (founded 1961)
Artist (Blackburn, England, 1939 - 2015)
Date1994-1995
Object NameBooklet
Mediumink, card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions15.9 x 10.2 x 0.3cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017422
About MeBooklet with colour illustrations containing nine proposals for a forest. Each page has a watercolour illustration by Ron Costley of the proposed addition to the garden and an annotation below, in both German and English, written by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Pia Maria Simig. The booklet has a dust cover and is 13 pages, bound with white 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.
Four Trees
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1994
Unsigned
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1995
5 x 1
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1999
Proem
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1998
Plan of Aberdeen - Industrial Zoning Proposals
W Dobson Chapman and Partners
1952 (published)