Death of Hektor, A Signed Limited Edition Artist's Book with Prints

Brian Coffey (poem); Stanley William Hayter (engravings). DEATH OF HEKTOR. [Guildford, Surrey]: Circle Press, 1979. Signed limited edition; no. 69 out of 300 copies, signed by Coffey and Hayter in pen on the limitation. With (9) intaglio prints (engravings with etching), including three in color, all on Crisbrook J Barcham Green handmade paper, and numbered and signed by the artist in pencil; (23) text pages, letterpress printed by Abbey Press on Velin Cuve Rives; all contained loose in a black portfolio and plain printed cloth-covered slipcase. In case 16 1/4 x 12 1/2 in. Duplicate Prints and Photographs from Davidson College, Sold to support new acquisitions. Stanley William Hayter (British, 1901-1988) was an English born painter and printmaker. His early work tends toward the surreal, but by the 1940s he was embracing abstract expressionism. In 1927, Hayter founded the Atelier 17 studio in Paris, which championed the artistic possibilities of printmaking. Among the artists often found in the studio space were Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Wassily Kandisky. While the studio moved to New York in 1940, it returned to Paris in 1950. Following Hayter's death in 1988, it was renamed "Atelier Contrepoint" and remains in operation today. Hayter's paintings and prints are in such prominent collections as Tate London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. Occasional mark or light soiling (only impacting plates at margins or versos), a few tissue guards creased, and one plate with waviness to paper; small stain to one corner of the case. Very good.

Estimate:£75.61

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