Stanley William Hayter

Calculus - Color Viscosity Etching

1971

Artist: Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988 ) Title: Calculus Date: 1971 Medium: Etching and soft-ground etching Image Size: 23.5 x 19 inches Sheet size: 30 x 22 inches – BFK Rives paper Signature: signed, dated lower right Publisher: La Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Printer: Hector Saunier Catalogue Raisonne: B&M 353 Edition: 100 plus 5 artist’s proofs. This one: 57/100 This exceptional color viscosity etching is an excellent example of Stanley William Hayter’s iconic printmaking. He is the founder of Atelier 17, and as such, one of the most influential printmakers of the 20th century. Viscosity printing is a multi-color printmaking technique that incorporates principles of relief printing and intaglio printing. It was pioneered by Stanley William Hayter. This is an absolutely beautiful print; it is an exceptional composition with rich, saturated colors. The print is titled “Calculus”. It was published in 1971, and is B&M 353 in the catalog raisonne. The print has full margins and is in very good condition, never framed. There is a bit of slight rippling on the upper and lower edges, barely visible. Please see photographs. Stanley William Hayter CBE (27 December 1901 – 4 May 1988) was an English painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with surrealism and from 1940 onward with abstract expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, in 1927 Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris. Since his death in 1988, it has been known as Atelier Contrepoint. Among the artists who frequented the atelier were Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Nemesio Antúnez...

Artist: Richard Smith, CBE (1931-2016) British Title: Untitled Abstract Grid Date: 1972 Medium: Serigraph (screenprint) Sheet size: 29.5 in x 22 in Framed size: 36.75 x 28.25 inches ...