Reap the SAC Faction, Join the Saint-Just Vigilantes
Artist
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
PublisherPublished by
Wild Hawthorn Press
(founded 1961)
RecipientReceived by
Joyce Laing
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1939 - 2022)
AssociatedAssociated with
Scottish Arts Council
Date1985
Object NameLithograph
Mediumink, paper
ClassificationsPrints
DimensionsLithograph: 27.8 x 18.4cm
Envelope: 10.2 x 22.6cm
Envelope: 10.2 x 22.6cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017445
About MeLithograph with "Reap the SAC Faction, Join the Saint-Just Vigilantes" printed in black and red with a large hook around it. Below this are a series of 20 names, such as Professor Jan McDonald, Charles Gallacher, Professor Isi Metzstein, and so on, all of whom were members of the Scottish Arts Council in 1985.Ian Hamilton Finlay sent this copy to Joyce Laing in a brown manila envelope postmarked 14 June 1985. The slogan "Saint-Just Vigilantes Slip the Black Spot to the SAC Twenty Two" is stamped on the front of the envelope in blue ink.
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.
