Centauresse
1943-1944
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View on museum website →Medium
engraving in black
Dimensions
plate: 15.2 x 10.2 cm (6 x 4 in.) sheet (irregular): 33 x 19.4 cm (13 x 7 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1971.73.1
Art Historical Context
Stanley William Hayter's *Centauresse*, created between 1943 and 1944, is a striking black engraving that captures the mythical half-woman, half-horse figure in, fluid lines. Measuring just 15.2 x 10.2 cm on the, this intimate print invites close viewing, its irregular sheet of 33 x 19.4 cm emphasizing the tactile quality of the medium. Acquired through the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund for the National Gallery of Art's print collection, it exemplifies mid-20th-century innovation in intaglio techniques. Hayter, a pioneering British printmaker and founder of the influential Atelier 17 workshop (orig...
About the Artist
Stanley William Hayter
Stanley William Hayter (1901–1988), born in Hackney, London, to painter and sign-maker William Harry Hayter, initially pursued a scientific career, earning a degree in chemistry and geology from King's College London. He worked as a research chemist for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Abadan, Iran, from 1922 to 1925, painting portraits of colleagues in his spare time; an exhibition of these upon ...