William Tillyer

Nidularium

2018

William Tillyer The Ruswarp Suite 4 2023 Etching, aquatint on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 6 Plate size: 39.4 x 39.4 cms (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 ins) Paper size: 57.2 x 57.8 cms (22 1/2 x 2...

William Tillyer The Ruswarp Suite 6 2023 Etching, aquatint on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 6 Plate size: 39.4 x 39.4 cms (15 1/2 x 15 1/2 ins) Paper size: 57.2 x 57.8 cms (22 1/2 x 2...

William Tillyer "gazing at the tortoise where it lay huddled in a corner of the dinning room; glittering brightly in the half light" 1974/2018 Coloured relief and intaglio printing o...

William Tillyer The Mulgrave Suite 2023 Etching, aquatint and embossing with hand colouring in watercolour on paper, Edition of 35, Set of 7 Image size: 40 x 40 cms (15 3/4 x 15 3/4...

Stanley William Hayter, 'Expansion', color etching and soft-ground, 1970, edition 100, Black & Moorhead 334. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '23/50' in pencil. A superb, richly inked impression with fresh, vivid colors on heavy off-white wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 17 1/8 x 19 7/16 inches (435 x 494 mm); sheet size 22 x 23 1/2 inches (559 x 597 mm). This innovative graphic work was created in the first state using a plate covered with a plastic sheet; the sheet was cut, and the soft-ground texture was added. In the second state, the plate was covered again, and the sheet cut then etched with a deep bite, and a soft ground texture was added. Printed by Hector Saunier: intaglio fluorescent orange, hard roller phthalo green, soft roller transparent yellow. Note: the online image cannot accurately convey the vibrancy of the printed fluorescent orange. An impression of this work is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was a British 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, Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris, now known as Atelier Contrepoint. Among the artists he is credited with influencing are Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall. The hallmark of the workshop was its egalitarian structure, breaking sharply with the traditional French engraving studios by insisting on a cooperative approach to labor and technical discoveries. In 1929 Hayter was introduced to Surrealism by Yves Tanguy and André Masson, who, with other Surrealists, worked with Hayter at Atelier 17. The often violent imagery of Hayter’s Surrealist period was stimulated in part by his passionate response to the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Fascism. He organized portfolios of graphic works to raise funds for the Spanish cause, including Solidarité (Paris, 1938), a portfolio of seven prints, one of them by Picasso. Hayter frequently exhibited with the Surrealists during the 1930s but left the movement when Paul Eluard was expelled. Eluard’s poem Facile Proie (1939) was written in response to a set of Hayter’s engravings. Other writers with whom Hayter collaborated in this way included Samuel Beckett and Georges Hugnet. Hayter joined the exile of the Parisian avant-garde in 1939, moving with his second wife, the American sculptor Helen Phillips...

Black Day, from The Flatford Chart by William Tillyer, 2010 Additional information: Medium: etching 44 x 55.5 cm 17 3/8 x 21 7/8 in

Spoleto is an offset and lithograph print realized on Fabriano Paper after a drawing by Willem De Kooning of 1970. The print suite was realized in 1985 in a limited edition of 2500,...

Dèrive is an artwork realized by Stanley William Hayter in 1964. Etching Sheet cm 68x51; image cm 50x39. Ref. Black and Moorhead, 284. Hand signed in pencil lower right. Titled...