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The present order is the disorder of the future

Ian Hamilton FINLAY, Nicholas SLOAN
The present order is the disorder of the future
 1983

Medium
card: colour photo-lithograh

Measurements
14.3 × 15.9 cm (comp.) 18.4 × 20.3 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Grazia Gunn through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2010
© By courtesy of the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Murray, Mooney & Finlay 4.169

Printing/Publishing
published by Wild Hawthorn Press

Inscription
printed in brown ink: THE PRESENT ORDER / IS THE DISORDER / OF THE FUTURE / SAINT-JUST
printed in red ink: Cut around outlines. Arrange words in order. / Louis-Antoine Saint-Just, 1767-1794 / Ian Hamilton Finlay. Nicholas Sloan. For The Committee of Public Safety. Little Sparta

Accession Number
2010.178

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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