Catalogue entry
P07474 STYX 1976 [P07470-P07476;complete]
Inscribed ‘SW Hayter 76’ bottom right and ‘Styx’ and ‘XIV/XX’
Etching, printed by the artist with Hector Saunier and published by M'Arte, Milan in an edition of 100, 19 1/8×23 3/8 (48.5×59.3)
Purchased from the artist (Grant-in-Aid) 1981
These seven etchings [P07470-P07476] are printed in colour by the method Hayter has evolved over many years of experimentation. He uses engraved line (see ‘Cirque Chinois’ [P07473]) as well as hard-ground etching and aquatint and applies colour to the plate both wiped in in the usual way, and rolled onto the surface of the plate in different viscosities enabling him to print a number of different colour in a single pass through the press… (read more)
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