An Early Picasso
Artist
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
PublisherPublished by
Wild Hawthorn Press
(founded 1961)
Date1994
Object NameFolding Card
Mediumink, card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions11.8 x 10cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017428
About MeFolding blue card with a piece of pink folded card inserted. This insert has a printed extract from Jaques Louis David's "Instructions for the Festival of the Supreme Being", which took place in June 1794. Ian Hamilton Finlay retitled this "An Early Picasso in J. L. David".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.
Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain and Ireland) Limited
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
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