Stanley William Hayter
, English, 1901-1988
Title
Still IIDate1973
MediumColoured Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 29.4 x 21.4 cm
Sheet: 37.7 x 28.2 cm
Signedlower right (in graphite): SWHayter '73
Credit LinePurchased, 1975
Object numberNGI.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).Inscriptionlower left: 9/of 133
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