Artist faces costly action
AssociatedAssociated with
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
Date1989
Object NameNewspaper Article
Mediumnewsprint
ClassificationsMemorabilia
DimensionsPaper Size: 39 x 6cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017359.167
About MeNewspaper article dated 9 July 1989 relating to the French court case wherein Finlay sued those who had accused him of fascism, causing the loss of his commission to design a garden at Versailles commemorating the bicentennial of the Declaration of the Rights of Man.This newspaper cutting is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing, OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend.
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