Hirschfeld, Blum, Hayat, watch this edge!
Artist
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
PublisherPublished by
Wild Hawthorn Press
(founded 1961)
Datec.1988
Object NameFolding Card
Mediumink, card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions3.9 x 9.7cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017447
About MeFolding card with text/poem on the outside front and back, which reads:''Hirschfeld, Blum, Hayat, watch this edge!
Saint-Just Vigilantes, watch this space!
Committee of Public Safety, Little Sparta''
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.
