Screenprint on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ian-hamilton-finlay-1093" aria-label="More by Ian Hamilton Finlay" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Ian Hamilton Finlay</a>
Acrobats
Purchased 1981
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non-representational
text
paper print screenprint
1 July 2013 – 30 September 2013
2013-09-30
1 July 2013 – 30 September 2013
2013-09-30
2013-07-01
Arnolfini Gallery (Bristol, UK)
2013-07-01
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Loan-out
Acrobats
image: 388 × 279 mm
Purchased 1981
<p><b>P07450</b> ACROBATS 1966
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<br/>Not inscribed
<br/>Screenprint, printed at Girdwood, Edinburgh and published by the Wild Hawthorn Press, Lanark in an edition of about 400, 15 1/8×11 (38.8×27.9)
<br/>Purchased from Coracle Press (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
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<br/>Wild Hawthorn Press is Finlay's own publishing name; Girdwood is a commercial <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/screenprint" title="Glossary definition for 'Screenprint'"><span>screenprinting</span></a> company in Edinburgh, where many of his <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> are made. Finlay's prints are frequently collaborations, this one being with Ron Costley.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984
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