Witches' Sabbath

1958

Stanley William Hayter

Associated Names
Stanley William Hayter

Artist, British, 1901 - 1988

The image displays swirling lines and geometric shapes on a textured teal background. The abstract composition includes fluid, curving lines intersecting and overlapping, resembling outlines of hearts, leaves, and arrows. These shapes are mixed with rigid, angular forms creating dynamic movement, evoking tangled seaweed or swirling currents.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color engraving and softground etching on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Lasky Charitable Lead Trust)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 49.53 × 63.82 cm (19 1/2 × 25 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 68.42 × 83.34 cm (26 15/16 × 32 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.3279

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Black and Moorhead 1992, no. 239, v/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Moses Lasky, San Francisco, California; Lasky Charitable Lead Trust, New York, 2002; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1992

  • Black, Peter, and Désirée Moorhead. The Prints of Stanley William Hayter: A Complete Catalogue. Mount Kisco, New York: Moyer Bell Limited, 1992, p. 225, no. 239, v/v.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: E 3/5; lower center in graphite: Witches Sabbath; lower right in graphite: SWHayter 58; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: $85

Watermarks

A.C.M. Water Colour Paper England 1953

Wikidata ID

Q77010164

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