Lot 218
  • 218

Stanley William Hayter

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Stanley William Hayter
  • Unstable Woman (B. & M. 177)
  • engraving
  • plate: 37.8 by 50cm.; 14 7/8 by 19 3/4 in.; sheet: 48.3 by 63cm.; 19 by 24 3/4 in.
Engraving and etching printed in colours, 1946-7, signed in pencil, titled, dated, numbered 47/50, on Van Gelder Zonen paper (unframed)

Condition

The full sheet, with margins, in generally in good condition apart from the sheet is toned, a few short tears to the right of the lower sheet edge with associated creasing (well away from the image), a diagonal creases across the lower right corner of the plate, other various creasing, mostly at sheet edges, a few minute nicks and tears to the sheet edges, surface soiling in the margins, mostly at the lower left corner, traces of ink and surface soiling verso, unframed.
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