Kneeling Figure (aka: Personnage a Genoux; Personnage Agenouille) by Stanley William Hayter

Kneeling Figure (aka: Personnage a Genoux; Personnage Agenouille) by Stanley William Hayter

Kneeling Figure (aka: Personnage a Genoux; Personnage Agenouille)

Stanley William Hayter

Title

Kneeling Figure (aka: Personnage a Genoux; Personnage Agenouille)

 
Artist

Stanley William Hayter

  1901 - 1988 (biography)
Year
1950  
Technique
engraving and soft-ground on a etching copper plate, printed in black 
Image Size
9 15/16 x 5 7/8" platemark 
Signature
lower right margin, pencil 
Edition Size
15/30 plus 10 A/P's and state proofs; an unlimited edition printed by the Chalcographie du Louvre, w 
Annotations
pencil editioned, titled and dated. 
Reference
B/M 191; British Museum 1988,0409.171 
Paper
thick, soft, antique-white hand-made paper with 4 deckeled edges. 
State
iii/iv 
Publisher
State 3 published by the artist, state 4 published by the Chalcographie du Louvre. 
Inventory ID
19868 
Price
SOLD
Description

This impression of "Kneeling Figure" is from the edition of 30 in the third state that Hayter printed on various papers, this paper being a hand made Lauriet on which he printed numbers 13 through 16. This paper is thick and soft, with 4 deckled edges. The paper contains small chunks of pulp, almost like bark. In two areas in the margins of this print these chunks have fallen out or were removed, like the one to the left of the signature.

"Kneeling Figure" is one of Hayter's most familiar images, partly due to the fact that the plate was acquired by the Chalcographie du Louvre in Paris, which added their trademark to the lower left corner of the plate and has printed an unlimited edition that is available through the museum shop at the Louvre.