Le pendu (The Hanged Man)
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color engraving and softground etching
Dimensions
plate: 57.8 x 52.4 cm (22 3/4 x 20 5/8 in.) sheet: 91.4 x 63.2 cm (36 x 24 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.105
Art Historical Context
Stanley William Hayter's *Le pendu (The Hanged Man)*, created in 1983, is a striking color engraving and softground that showcases the artist's lifelong innovation in printmaking. At 57.8 x 52.4 cm on a generous 91.4 x 63.2 cm sheet, this work from the National Gallery of Art collection (gift of Ruth Cole Kainen) captures Hayter's experimental spirit late in his career—he was 83 when he made it, just five years before his death. Hayter, a British artist who founded the influential Atelier 17 studio in Paris in 1927, revolutionized intaglio techniques, particularly in multi-color printing. Sof...
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 ...