Stanley William Hayter
- Introduction
- Stanley William Hayter (27 December 1901 – 4 May 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. Since his death in 1988, it has been known as Atelier Contrepoint. Among the artists who frequented the atelier were Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Nemesio Antúnez, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Wassily Kandinsky, Mauricio Lasansky, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Flora Blanc and Catherine Yarrow.He is noted for his innovative work in the development of viscosity printing (a process that exploits varying viscosities of oil-based inks to lay three or more colours on a single intaglio plate).Hayter was equally active as a painter, "Hayter, working always with maximum flexibility in painting, drawing, engraving, collage and low relief has invented some of the most central and significant images of this century before most of the other artists of his generation", wrote Bryan Robertson.
- Wikidata
- Q641304
- Introduction
- British artist is associated with Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. He is regarded as one of the most innovative printmakers of the 20th century, particularly in regard to his development of intaglio and color printmaking techniques, on which he published guides. Born to a family of artists, he studied chemistry and geology and worked in the Middle East from 1922-1925 for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, but decided to abandon this career for art. He settled in Paris in 1926 and in 1927 he founded a print shop in Paris with Joseph Hecht. The shop became known as Atelier 17, (called Atelier Contrepoint after Hayter's death in 1988). He worked there with many artists of the time, including Miró, Arp, Tanguy, Giacometti, Matta, Brauner, Kandinsky, Alechinsky, and André Masson, with whom he explored automatic drawing. Between 1933 and 1950, Hayter relocated to New York where he was in contact with other European and American painters, including Pollock, Rothko, Motherwell, and Gorky.
- Nationalities
- British, English
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Writer, Illustrator, Painter
- Names
- Stanley William Hayter, S. W. Hayter
- Ulan
- 500010689
Exhibitions
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Joan Miró: Birth of the World
Feb 24–Jun 15, 2019
MoMA
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Abstract Expressionist New York
Oct 3, 2010–Apr 25, 2011
MoMA
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Open Ends
Sep 28, 2000–Mar 4, 2001
MoMA
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MoMA2000, ModernStarts: Places - Unreal City
Oct 28, 1999–Mar 14, 2000
MoMA
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Miró’s Black and Red Series: A New Acquisition in Context
Nov 19, 1998–Feb 2, 1999
MoMA
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Stanley William Hayter has
27 exhibitionsonline.
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Stanley William Hayter Rue de la Villette 1930
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Stanley William Hayter Oedipus 1934
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Stanley William Hayter Rape of Lucretia (Viol de Lucréce) 1934
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Stanley William Hayter L'Apocalypse 1937
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Yves Tanguy, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, André Masson, Dalla Husband, Stanley William Hayter, John Buckland-Wright, Various Artists Solidarité (Solidarity) 1938
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Stanley William Hayter Plate 7 from Solidarité (Solidarity) 1938
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Stanley William Hayter Invocation 1939
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John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter, Joseph Hecht, Dalla Husband, Vasily Kandinsky, Roderick Mead, Joan Miró, Dolf Rieser, Luis Vargas Rosas, Various Artists Fraternity 1939
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Stanley William Hayter España (folio 5) from Fraternity 1939
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Stanley William Hayter Fraternity (slipcase front) from Fraternity 1939
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Stanley William Hayter Maternity 1940
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Stanley William Hayter Hand Sculpture 1940
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Stanley William Hayter Combat 1936, published 1941
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Stanley William Hayter Laocoön 1943
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Stanley William Hayter Tarantelle 1943
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Stanley William Hayter Untitled 1943
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Stanley William Hayter Centauresse 1943-44
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Stanley William Hayter Amazon 1945
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Max Ernst, Stanley William Hayter, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Joan Miró, Kurt Seligmann, Yves Tanguy, Various Artists Brunidor Portfolio, No. 1 1947
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Stanley William Hayter Virtual Figure (Personnage virtuelle) from Brunidor Portfolio, No. 1 1947
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Stanley William Hayter Death by Water 1948
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Stanley William Hayter Sun Dance (1951)
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Stanley William Hayter The Couple 1952
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Stanley William Hayter Jeau d'eau 1953
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Pierre Alechinsky, Fred Becker, Letterio Calapai, Willem de Kooning, Peter Grippe, Salvatore Grippi, Stanley William Hayter, Franz Kline, Jacques Lipchitz, Ezio Martinelli, Ben Nicholson, Irene Rice Pereira, Helen Phillips, André Racz, Kurt Roesch, Attilio Salemme, Louis Schanker, Karl Schrag, Esteban Vicente, Adja Yunkers, Various Artists 21 Etchings and Poems 1951–60, published 1960
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Stanley William Hayter, Jacques-Henri Lévesque In-text plate (folio 11) from 21 Etchings and Poems c. 1950s, published 1960
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Jean (Hans) Arp, Hans Bellmer, Camille Bryen, Oscar Domínguez, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Stanley William Hayter, Valentine Hugo, Wifredo Lam, André Masson, Joan Miró, Various Artists Feuilles éparses 1957–65, published 1965
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Stanley William Hayter Night Forest (plate, page 71) from Feuilles éparses 1963, published 1965
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Stanley William Hayter Slip Stream 1967
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Stanley William Hayter Cross Current 1967
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Stanley William Hayter, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Liberman, Roy Lichtenstein, André Masson, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Saul Steinberg, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Various Artists For Meyer Schapiro 1973–74, published 1974
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Stanley William Hayter Backwash (Ressac) from For Meyer Schapiro 1973, published 1974
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Stanley William Hayter, Joan Miró Untitled 1947, published 1982
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