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Stanley William Hayter

English print-maker and engraver (1901-1988) · United Kingdom · On the map · Artists · Died at 86

Stanley William Hayter was an English painter and master printmaker associated in the 1930s with surrealism and from 1940 onward with abstract expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, in 1927 Hayter founded the influential Atelier 17 studio in Paris.

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Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres

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Since his death in 1988, it has been known as Atelier Contrepoint. Among the artists who frequented the atelier were Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Nemesio Antúnez, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Wassily Kandinsky, Mauricio Lasansky, K.R.H. Sonderborg, Flora Blanc, Carl Heywood, and Catherine Yarrow.

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United Kingdom
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1901 to 1988 · aged 86

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