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Stanley William Hayter, English, 1901 - 1988
Title: Still II
Date: 1973
Medium: Coloured Etching
Dimensions:
Sheet: 37.7 x 28.2 cm
Plate: 29.4 x 21.4 cm
Signed: lower right (in graphite): SWHayter '73
Credit Line: Purchased, 1975
Object Number: NGI.11424.2
DescriptionHayter was an English printmaker and painter who founded Atelier 17, the most influential print workshop of the 20th century. He operated Atelier 17 in Paris during the 1930s, but relocated the workshop to New York in the 1940s. He was interested in technical experimentation, and avant-garde theories and styles including automatism and abstraction. Hayter was an important innovator in intaglio techniques, using screens to apply inks to the etching plate, allowing him to print various colours simultaneously, for the first time in the history of etching. His writings include New Ways of Gravure (1949) and About Prints (1962).
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