He spoke like an axe
1984
Medium
folding card: photo-lithograph printed in black ink
Measurements
19.2 × 4.3 cm (comp.) 20.9 × 6.4 cm (folded) 41.9 × 6.4 cm (unfolded)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Grazia Gunn through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2010
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Murray, Mooney & Finlay 4.184
Printing/Publishing
published by Wild Hawthorn Press
Inscription
printed (vertically) in ink (in image) u.c.-l.c.: HE SPOKE LIKE AN AXE. BARBERE ON SAINT-JUST
printed in ink l.c.: IAN HAMILTON FINLAY. RICHARD HEALY / WILD HAWTHORN PRESS
Accession Number
2010.185
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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