Combat

 

Stanley William Hayter

  1901 - 1988 (biography)

1936  

engraving, scorper and soft-ground etching 

15 13/16 x 19 1/2" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

7 of 30  

pencil titled, dated and editioned 

Black & Moorhead 102 

heavy, antique white Kochi 

x/x 

artist at Atelier 17 

16195 

SOLD

Often illustrated as a classic Surrealist print, Combat was done as a response to the Spanish Civil War and has a kinship with Picasso's Guernica, done a year later. The plates, state proofs and drawings for Combat are at the Brooklyn Museum. A full description of the creation of this print is in Black & Moorhead, pages 48-53. In a letter in 1942 he explained that the print contained 'Lines of tension, compression, flow, movement, explosive centers, lines of suspension, of pouring, of flame, of successive displacement of formrs, etc.' "Combat" is illustrated on page 33, figure 10 in the British Museum catalogue The American Scene / Prints from Hopper to Pollak, Stephen Coppel, 2008.