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To cease to believe in others is an impermissible luxury

Ian Hamilton FINLAY
To cease to believe in others is an impermissible luxury
 1983
from Ian Hamilton Finlay Posters 1983

Medium
lithograph printed in black and red ink

Measurements
8.8 × 27.1 cm (comp.) 20.8 × 29.8 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 5.82

Printing/Publishing
published by Wild Hawthorn Press

Inscription
printed in red ink: TO CEASE TO BELIEVE IN OTHERS / IS AN IMPERMISSABLE LUXURY
printed in ink: IAN HAMILTON FINLAY: DETACHED SENTENCES ON REVOLUTION / THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY: LITTLE SPARTA
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.r.c.: 1983

Accession Number
2010.168.4

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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