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He spoke like an axe

He spoke like an axe
 1984

Medium
folding card: photo-lithograph printed in black ink
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Grazia Gunn through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2010
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

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)
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
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Grazia Gunn through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2010
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

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