Feux d’Artifice

1958, printed 1966
(British, 1901–1988)
Platemark: 49.3 x 29.7 cm (19 7/16 x 11 11/16 in.); Sheet: 56.8 x 40.1 cm (22 3/8 x 15 13/16 in.)
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Catalogue raisonné: Black and Moorhead 249
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location: not on view

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During the late 1950s and early ’60s, Hayter explored the technique of drawing on a printing plate with a Flo-master felt-tip pen, then spattering it with resin varnish. He carefully applied inks of different viscosities using rollers of varying hardness, in order to both separate and intermingle the various colors. Prints made in this manner, such as Fireworks, have visual affinities with the famed “drip” paintings of Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), who had worked briefly at the New York branch of Atelier 17 during the mid-1940s.
Feux d’Artifice

Feux d’Artifice

1958, printed 1966

Stanley William Hayter, Hayter and Atelier 17

(British, 1901–1988), null
Britain

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