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STANLEY W. HAYTER Viol de Lucrèce.
Etching, soft-ground etching and scorper, 1934. 300x356 mm; 11 3/4x14 1/4 inches, full margins. Fourth state (of 4). One of only 3 numbered artist's proofs, aside from the edition of 30. Signed, titled, dated, inscribed "Etat IV" and numbered 1/3 in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression of this scarce, early print.
Hayter (1901-1988) was an English 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, in 1927 Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris. The studio was a nexus for numerous important surrealist artists--many of whom were painters and sculptors in their introductory or early development stages as intaglio printmakers--including Joan Miró, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst, Victor Brauner, and Leonor Fini. At the outbreak of World War II, Hayter moved Atelier 17 to New York and taught printmaking at the New School. In this New York iteration of Atelier 17, nascent abstract expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko began their printmaking careers and overlapped with the earlier generation of surrealist artists, many of whom sought temporary refuge in New York from World War II, including Miró, Tanguy, Salvador Dalí, and André Masson. Black/Moorhead 86.
