The Desmoulins Connection
Artist
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
PublisherPublished by
Wild Hawthorn Press
(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.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1999