Louis Leygue Abstract Prints

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. 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...

Agnes Mills (American, 1915-2008) Guignol Intermezzo, 1982 Hand colored etching (UNIQUE) Sight: 13 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. Framed: 19 1/2 x 17 x 3/4 in. Titled lower right Inscribed "AP" bo...

A very good impression of this color aquatint and etching with strong colors. Signed and numbered 59/75 in black crayon by Tamayo. Published by Polígrafa, Barcelona. From "Rufino Tam...

Hand signed and numbered Aquatint Etching Susan Hall lives and works in Point Reyes Station, California, a town in the heart of the Point Reyes National Seashore. This pristine wilderness area is dominated by a mosaic of bays and ocean, rolling grass lands and forests. It is inhabited by a diversity of wildlife, including over 450 species of birds, mountains lions, deer, bobcats, foxes, and elk. Ms. Hall who is a native of this area returned after spending twenty years in New York City. In her book, “Painting Point Reyes”, Hall says, “Point Reyes is the center of my painting life. Point Reyes has been my life and when I haven’t lived here, it has been an underground stream that spoke to me in dreams and visions.” While living and painting in New York City, Ms. Hall exhibited her work widely in museums and galleries. Among them are the Whitney Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Trabia MacAfee Gallery, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago; Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles. In addition, her work has been featured in group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, including in 2020 Bud Shark's Ink: The California Crew at BMoCA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Colorado USA representing the panoply of aesthetics, cultural backgrounds, viewpoints, and talent held within the bounty of art “made in California.” This remarkable grouping of artists, Brad Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Roy De Forest, Amy Ellingson, Susan Hall, Don Ed Hardy, Mildred Howard, Robert Hudson, Hung Liu, Kara Maria, Rex Ray, Alison Saar, Italo Scanga, and William T. Wiley. Women to the Fore, Hudson River Museum Yonkers 2021 A group of women artists working in oil painting and drawing, lithograph prints and photograph, collage and sculpture. Many icons of feminist art history. Judy Chicago, Judy Giera, Marisol, and Shanequa Benitez, Ann McCoy, Anna Walinska, Audrey Flack, Barbara Morgan, Berenice Abbott, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Hannelore Baron, Harriet, Judy Chicago, Louise Nevelson, Marisol, Mary Frank, Nancy Graves, Susan Hall, Yvonne Thomas...

A superb impression with vibrant colors. A superb impression of this color aquatint and etching on Zerkall paper. Edition of 119. Signed and dated in pencil by Doig. Proofed by the a...

Mi Octobre by Johnny Friedlaender, German (1912–1992) Date: 1969 Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 44/95 Image Size: 26.5 x 18 inches Size: 30 x 22 in. ...

Robert Mangold 'Untitled,' 1995 Color aquatint 27 x 28 inches Edition 21 of 60 Signed recto

American Cathedral (The Woolworth Building). 1921. Etching. Fletcher 107. 17 x 6 5/8 (sheet 21 1/2 x 9 1/8). Edition 75. Provenance: estate of David...

Abstract color composition, 1959 aquatint lithograph "the Master and his Pupils". This was from a portfolio which included works by Yosl Bergner, Menashe Kadishman, Yosef Zaritsky, Aharon Kahana, Jacob...

This beautiful modernist aquatint etching was realized by the esteemed Indian artist Kaiko Moti, circa 1975. It offers an abstracted and stylized tree branch (presumably that of a Ch...

Anne Flora - Flight, Year: 1968, Medium: Etching, signed, titled, numbered and dated in pencil, Edition: 1/10, Image Size: 26 x 19 inches, Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

Published edition, not trial proof Open Action. 1926/1928. Etching. Giardina 124. 7 x 15 1/8 (sheet 12 3/4 x 15 1/4). Trial proof, prior to the edition of 90. A rich, tonal impressi...