Lot Essay
On 19 November 1993, in these rooms, an uncolored plaster version of Combat (see B. and M. 102) sold for $16,100, lot 179.
Prestige of the Insect (see Black and Moorhead 149)
Details
STANLEY WILLIAM HAYTER (1901-1988)
Prestige of the Insect (see Black and Moorhead 149)
engraving, soft-ground etching and scorper with carving and hand-coloring, 1942, on a plaster slab, with the incised signature and date at the bottom right, titled and dated '1943' in pencil on the reverse, presumably the one known example recorded by Black and Moorhead, some very pale staining in the outer edge, the top left corner with a repaired break just into the image showing mostly on the reverse, otherwise generally in very good condition, framed
P. 9 x 9 in.(228 x 228mm.)
Prestige of the Insect (see Black and Moorhead 149)
engraving, soft-ground etching and scorper with carving and hand-coloring, 1942, on a plaster slab, with the incised signature and date at the bottom right, titled and dated '1943' in pencil on the reverse, presumably the one known example recorded by Black and Moorhead, some very pale staining in the outer edge, the top left corner with a repaired break just into the image showing mostly on the reverse, otherwise generally in very good condition, framed
P. 9 x 9 in.(228 x 228mm.)