Stanley William Hayter was a British painter and master printmaker. He is best known for founding the influential workshop Atelier 17 in Paris in 1927, which became the centre for experimental intaglio printmaking in the 20th century.

Atelier 17 brought together many leading modern artists, including Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Wassily Kandinsky, and later American artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko during its wartime relocation to New York (1940–1945).

Hayter is particularly associated with the development of viscosity printing, a groundbreaking intaglio technique that enabled multiple colours to be printed from a single plate, greatly expanding the painterly potential of engraving and etching.

Hayter’s work is held in major collections including the Tate, the British Museum, and MoMA.
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Notes:

Black & Moorhead 127
Engraving and scorper printed in black
On Barcham Green paper
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 9/100

Unframed

From the second and final edition, printed by Hector Saunier and Rigmor Poenaru
Published by Associated American Artists, 1974