For Stanley Hayter (#2)

Cat. No. 1326

For Stanley Hayter (#2)

State/Variant:
Only state
Date:
2006
Themes
Abstraction
Techniques
Etching
Support:
Paper
Dimensions:
sheet: 10 7/8 × 8" (27.6 × 20.3 cm)
Signature:
"LB" right lower margin, pencil.
Publisher
Osiris
Printer
Wingate Studio
Edition:
2 known impressions of the only state
Edition Information:
The hand additions on this composition vary from impression to impression. For comparison, see the other example in the Evolving Composition Diagram below.
Impression:
Not numbered
Background:
Stanley William Hayter founded the print workshop Atelier 17, which he relocated from Paris to New York during WWII. Bourgeois worked there intermittently until 1949, enjoying the company of an array of international artists. Bourgeois found Hayter intimidating as he demonstrated engraving, but remembered feeling useful in the shop because she could facilitate communication with the artists who spoke only French. "Le Cauchemar de Hayter," seen below in Related Works in Other Mediums, is another work that references the printmaker.
Curatorial Remarks:
The color of hand additions, plate size, and paper type could not be documented because this work is not in MoMA's Collection and could not be examined in person.
Description:
Etching, with watercolor and gouache additions
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

For Stanley Hayter

2006

States
For Stanley Hayter
For Stanley Hayter (#2)

Related Works in the Catalogue

Reply to Stanley Hayter
Le Feu dans la Grille
La Peur de l'Eau
Le Cauchemar de Hayter