Descente by Stanley William Hayter

Descente by Stanley William Hayter

Descente

Stanley William Hayter

Title

Descente

 
Artist

Stanley William Hayter

  1901 - 1988 (biography)
Year
1946  
Technique
engraving, scorper and soft-ground etching 
Image Size
11 3/4 x 7 7/16" platemark 
Signature
unsigned state proof 
Edition Size
the third of 3 state proofs outside the edition of 5 artist's proofs and the published edition of 25 
Annotations
 
Reference
Black & Moorhead 164, iii/iii 
Paper
buff wove Cranach paper 
State
iii/iii 
Publisher
artist at Atelier 17, New York 
Inventory ID
FRBE304 
Price
SOLD
Description

Hayter uses engraving, a scorper and soft-ground etching on a zinc plateto create this image, which combines automatic line and un-inked gaffrauge to produce the 3-dimensional image. This is from a state proof of the third of three states.Hayter went on to print 5 Artist's Proofs and an edition of only 25 impressions of this image.

There is an area in the upper left that appears to be a printing gaffe - a slight fold and some stray ink, everything else seems to be similar the impression in the raisonne, with stronger lines and some wiping variations.