Stanley William Hayter

Cheiromency

1939

Artist: Terry Haas (Haass) (Czech, born 1923) Title: Piste Des Caravannes Year: Circa 1965 Medium: Color etching with aquatint Edition: Numbered 32/50 in pencil Paper: Arch...

This artwork titled " Deux Feuilles II" 1970 is a color etching with carborundum by noted Spanish artist Antoni Clave 1913-2005. It is signed and numbered 4/80 in pencil by the artist. The size is 29.85 x 22.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright. About the artist: Antoni Clavé was born in Barcelona on 5 April 1913. From 1926 he attended evening courses at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios "Llotja" taught by Félix Mestres, Josep Mongrell and Angel Ferrant. Mongrell found Clavé a place as a house painter's apprentice in 1927 because Clavé was fascinated by the hands-on side of painting and especially by the materials used for such work and wanted to learn how to prepare paints. During the Spanish Civil War Clavé served as a draughtsman for the Republican government, but at the end of the war. he fled to France. After internment at Les Haras camp in Perpignan, Clavé settled in Paris in 1939, drawing comics and working as an illustrator. During the 1940s Clavé's painting showed the stylistic influence of Bonnard, Vuillard, Rouault and especially Picasso, with whom he became acquainted in 1944. From 1946 Clavé did numerous designs for ballet and theatre in Paris, Munich, London and New York; in the 1950s he turned to book illustration. In 1954 Clavé ceased working as a stage-set designer and illustrator to devote himself entirely to painting, visiting Spain again. His paintings became more abstract and enigmatic; inspired by wall textures...

Artist: Yutaka Yoshinaga – Japanese (1948- ) Title: 96-C-1 Year: 1996 Medium: Color spit bite aquatint with drypoint and hard ground etching. Image si...

"Son Abrines" Original etching with aquatint printed on Guarro paper. Ink stamp signed, numbered 23/75 in pencil. Also hand signed in pencil on the back by the grand son of the artis...

Artist: Jacques Villon Title: Ajournement I Year: 1959 Medium: Etching Edition: Inscribed Bon A Tirer (Trial Proof) in pencil Paper Wove Image size: 5.5 x 6.5 inches Signature: H...

Artist: Jacques Villon Title: Ajournement IV Year : 1959 Medium: Etching Edition: Inscribed Bon A Tirer (Trial Proof) in pencil Paper: Wove Image size: 6 x 5 inches Signature:...

James Rosenquist (1933-2017) "Rouge Pad" One color etching, aquatint and embossing with hand-coloring on wove paper, 2nd state, 1978 Sheet size: 22-3/4 x 40 inches (57.8 x 101...

JIM DINE The New French Tools 3 (For Pep) Etching, aquatint and electric tools on tan wove paper, 1984. Image Size: 23 1/2 x 19 1/4inches, full margins...

Jim Dine (b. 1935) "Five Paintbrushes (3rd State)" Etching with drypoint, mezzotint and aquatint on Copperplate Deluxe paper, 1973 20-1/2 x 27-1/4 inches (52.1 x 69.2 cm) (image) Ed. 18/28 Signed, numbered, and dated in pencil along lower edge Published by Petersburg Press, Inc., New York Printed by Alan Uglow...

James Rosenquist (1933-2017) "Wind and Lightning" Etching and aquatint, photo-etching with pochoir on Pescia Italia paper, 2nd state, 1978 Sheet size: 23 x 40 inches (58.4 x 101.6 ...

Jim Dine (b. 1935) The New French Tools 2 - Three Saws from the Rue Cler Etching, aquatint, and electric tools in colors on Arches paper, 1984 36 x 24...

Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 "Peintre et modèle avec un noeud dans les cheveux" 1964 etching and aquatint on BFK Rives image: 10¾ h × 15 w in (27 × 38 cm)...