191 - Stanley William Hayter, Abstract Compositions, colour linocut from 1948 and colour etching from 1967, each signed

Stanley William Hayter, Abstract Compositions, colour linocut from 1948 and colour etching from 1967, each signed Stanley William Hayter, 1901 London - 1988 Paris, Abstract Composition in Black and Blue, colour linocut, 32.5 x 50 cm, signed, dated 1948, numbered 22/50, and ‘Rubis’, colour etching, 29 x 29 cm, signed, dated (19)67, titled, numbered 65/150, sheet slightly wavy at the bottom edge, without frame About the artist: In 1926, Stanley William Hayter began studying art at the Académie Julian in Paris. From 1929 onwards, he collaborated with Yves Tanguy, André Masson and other Surrealists. He was in regular contact with Pablo Picasso from 1934 to 1939, exchanging prints with him and offering technical assistance. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, he returned to England; in 1940, he emigrated to New York City. There, he worked alongside Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, William Baziotes and David Smith. In 1950, he returned to Paris and resumed teaching at Atelier 17. He focused primarily on colour prints and invented new intaglio techniques that enabled reproducible colour prints to be produced from a single plate.In 1959, he took part in documenta II in Kassel.