Palimpsest
Zinc intaglio: sugar lift, soft ground etching and scorper with three silkscreens printed in color, 1946, Black/Moorehead 170, edition 30. 9 x 6 7/8 in. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on a sturdy wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine apart from small traces of printing ink above the image at right. "Palimpsest" was done in three states on a zinc plate: the first was with applied sugar-lift and soft ground, then soft ground texture in 1945; the second state had the textures rebitten in March of 1946; the third added 3 silkscreens and used the scorper to achieve the three dimensional elements. There were color trial proofs numbered 1 - 5. "A 'palimpsest' is a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. Hayter builds layers of lines, colors, textures, and shapes overlapping each other; a dimensional white line, gouged out with a scorper, creates an abstracted figure on the surface of the colors." This quote comes from the Annex Galleries website.)
$2,500