Print of the Day!! Thursday, August 8, 2024 is by A17 founder Stanley W. Hayter (1901-1988): "Rue Dareau", drypoint, 1927, 6/20.

Print of the Day!! Thursday August 8, 2024 is by Atelier 17 founder Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) A series of prints by artist who worked at Atelier 17 in Paris and New York. ?

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The Annex Galleries is celebrating the summer by featuring prints by Atelier 17 printmakers. 2024 has seen the launch of The Atelier 17 Project, Inc which is preparing for the 100th birthday of the workshop in 2027.

"Rue Dareau" is an intaglio, a drypoint, done in 1927. The platemark measures 7-3/4 x 9-1/4 inches. This impression was printed by the artist at Atelier 17 in Paris on a sheet of antique-white wove Montval paper that measures 11-7/8 x 16-1/8 inches and is pencil signed, titled, editioned "6/20," dated "1927,"? and annotated "Paris." in the lower margin. This print is state ii/ii, from the published edition. This rare, early intaglio is number 24 in the Black and Moorhead catalogue raisonné. The gallery inventory for this print is GMC141.

This rare drypoint "Rue Dareau" by S. W. Hayter is available from the gallery for purchase. ?

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"Rue Dareau" was completed in 1927, his 24th print in what was to become an oeuvre of over 450. This print anticipates the 'Paysages Urbains' portfolio of 1930, containing 6 Parisian architectural prints which began his movement toward the psychic automatism of the new Surrealist movement.

Stanley William Hayter was born in Hackney, England on December 27, 1901, to a family of artists. Though always interested in art, he began his adult life as a chemist and scientist. After working in the oil fields of Iran for three years, he went to Paris in 1926 to study at the Académie Julian. There he met the engraver Joseph Hecht and began to merge his early training in chemistry with a new found interest in printmaking.

Hayter spent most of his life in Paris where, in 1927, he founded an experimental workshop for the graphic arts, Atelier 17, that played a central role in the twentieth century revival of the print as an independent art form. The name Atelier 17 was adopted in 1933 when Hayter moved his establishment from its original home to 17 Rue Campagne Première. Through the late 1920s and into the 1930s he began a series of experiments using engraving, soft-ground etching, gaffrauge, open-bite, scorper and other innovative, textural techniques, all loosely based on the Surrealist/Jungian concepts of subconscious image and automatic line. Artists from around the world gathered to work with him and ideas flowed freely. Hayter and most of the artists left Paris in late 1939 as war closed in on the city.

In 1940 Hayter moved to New York and re-founded Atelier 17 at the New School, moving to a studio on East 8 Street in 1945. The studio again became a melting pot for the artists who had arrived from Europe, American artists (many who had been part of the printmaking section of the WPA), and some young rebels (interested in breaking with the past and experimenting with technique and ideas). The emphasis in New York focused more on experimental color printing, including the use of viscosity printing and offset color using screenprint, stencil and woodcut. As in Paris, the salability of the image was near the bottom of the list of expectations.

Hayter returned to Paris in 1950 and re-established Atelier 17, attracting more international artists, many now coming from Asia. He continued to experiment with color printing, including the use of Flowmaster pens, incongruous and fluorescent colors and flowing, interwoven patterns. With an unrivaled knowledge of the technicalities of printmaking, Hayter authored two major books, New Ways of Gravure (1949) and About Prints (1962).

Throughout the next few weeks the gallery Print of the Day will feature some of the printmakers who worked with Hayter at the Atelier in both Paris and New York and will present a few more flip-books of artists whose work we have in depth. Biographies for these artists will be included in the texts and links. Prices are available on our website and can be accessed by using the inventory links. If there is no link the work has been sold.Use this link to view our complete inventory on our website: https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory?q=