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A modest hero

Ian Hamilton FINLAY, Gary HINCKS
A modest hero
 1986

Medium
card: lithograph printed in blue ink on card

Measurements
17.5 × 10.7 cm (comp.) 19.1 × 11.7 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 4.215

Printing/Publishing
published by Wild Hawthorn Press

Inscription
printed in blue ink below image l.c.l.: A MODEST HERO / WILD HAWTHORN PRESS
printed (vertically) in blue ink l.r.: Ian Hamilton Finlay and Gary Hincks

Accession Number
2010.188

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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