Paysage anthropophage (Man-eating Landscape) by Stanley William Hayter

Paysage anthropophage (Man-eating Landscape) by Stanley William Hayter

Paysage anthropophage (Man-eating Landscape)

Stanley William Hayter

Title

Paysage anthropophage (Man-eating Landscape)

 
Artist

Stanley William Hayter

  1901 - 1988 (biography)
Year
1937  
Technique
engraving and soft-ground etching 
Image Size
7 1/4 x 14" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
E 3/5 (one of 5 artist's proofs) 
Annotations
pencil titled, dated and editioned 
Reference
Black & Moorhead 106 
Paper
antique-white Montval laid 
State
iv/iv, but before signature and date added to the lower right corner of the plate 
Publisher
artist at Atelier 17 
Inventory ID
16199 
Price
SOLD
Description
One of 5 prints created as a commission for Ambrose Vollard to accompany the text of Numancia by Cervantes. The project ended with Vollard's death. This apocalyptic image was to be to illustrate Numantia Act IV, Scene 4 where the starving Numancians decide to eat the Roman prisoners. This, like Combat, refers to the Spanish Civil War, which began in 1936.