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The Desmoulins Connection
The Desmoulins Connection
The Desmoulins Connection

The Desmoulins Connection

Artist (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Publisher (founded 1961)
Datec.1988
Object NameFolding Card
Mediumink, card
ClassificationsPrints
Dimensions4.5 x 10cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017448
About MeFolding green card with text/poem printed in black ink on the outside front, which reads:

" 'To elevate men one has to be sublime oneself.' (Nietzsche)
And likewise, to lower them one has to be a Millet, a Salomon, a Hirschfeld."

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.
The Desmoulins Connection
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1987
The Desmoulins Connection
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1988
The Desmoulins Connection
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1988
The Desmoulins Connection
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1988
Blades
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1988-1989
"Cruel and ingenious sophists..."
Ian Hamilton Finlay
c.1988
Swastika
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1988
A definition for Michel Blum
Ian Hamilton Finlay
c.1988
A Tree of Liberty
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1990
Monostich for the French Election
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1988-1989
Advertising Fascism*
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1987
A Fragment
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1988
A Revolution
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1989
Sanding A Rudder
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1998
Temple of Apollo / Saint-Just
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1994