
Catalogue
- Year
- 1967
- Medium
- Wood and nylon net
- Dimensions
- object: 311 x 2400 x 133 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Artist
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
Artist

Britain's leading concrete poet and a distinguished artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay produced work that encompassed prints, books, sculpture, installation, and landscape design, marrying literature, mythology, and the classical tradition. He is well known for his word art, poetry, and text carved into stone or transformed into neon signs and recurring references like Virgil, seafaring culture, the French Revolution, and World War II. Finlay revived the concept of the poet's garden with his best-known work Little Sparta, the classical garden he built in the 1960s with arrangements of natural, sculptural, and poetic elements, including ponds, temples, inscriptions, and sundials.
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La Révolution devrait faire pour le peuple ce que le Cubisme a fait pour le couteau, la fourchette et la cuillère
1998 · Screenprint on paper
Viala
1994 · Offset lithograph
Heraclitean Variations
1994 · Offset lithograph
The Revolution
1994 · Offset lithograph
A Dream Is Always the Sentiment
1993 · Offset lithograph
A Formal Pool for Stockwood Park, Luton
1992 · Lithograph on paper
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Ian Hamilton Finlay
- Year
- 1967
- Medium
- Wood and nylon net
- Dimensions
- object: 311 x 2400 x 133 mm
- Watts ID
- WW-1967-218769
Source
- Collection
- Tate
- Source
- tate
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





