Untitled (L'apocalypse) plate 1

 

Stanley William Hayter

  1901 - 1988 (biography)

1930  

engraving and drypoint 

11 11/16 x 8 3/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

18 of 60  

editioned in pencil 

Black and Moorhead 49 

antique-white wove Arches JB 

iii/iii 

Editions Jeanne Bucher, Paris, May 1932 

16231 

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The 1st of 6 plates included in the portfolio "L'apocalypse", a surrealist collaboration between the artist, who had done the prints as unique works, and the author, George Hugnot, who wrote the text in response to the prints rather than the other way around. They were published by Editions Jeanne Bucher in Paris, 1932.