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Summer Sales

Print
1967 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Screenprint in blue and brown. The words 'SUMMER SALES' are emblazoned, in brown, across the upper half of the image. The word sales looks as if it has been crossed out and replaced by the word 'sails' which is positioned in the lower half of the image.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSummer Sales (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour screenprint
Brief description
Ian Hamilton Finlay in collaboration with Jim Nicholson, 'Summer Sales', screenprint, published by the Wild Hawthorn Press, Dunsyre, 1967
Physical description
Screenprint in blue and brown. The words 'SUMMER SALES' are emblazoned, in brown, across the upper half of the image. The word sales looks as if it has been crossed out and replaced by the word 'sails' which is positioned in the lower half of the image.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 58.8cm
  • Sheet width: 45.4cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1995
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1995
Collection
Accession number
E.2896-1995

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Record createdMarch 31, 2009
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