Laocoön

Stanley William Hayter · 1943

You're looking at Laocoön — a print by the British artist Stanley William Hayter, nineteen forty-three. An engraving, cut directly into metal with a burin, so every line tapers as the hand pushes and lifts. You can pick out the abstract shapes.

Medium Engraving and etching · Dimensions plate: 12 1/4 × 21 3/4" (31.1 × 55.2 cm); sheet: 15 1/16 × 24 1/8" (38.2 × 61.3 cm) · Credit Purchase

Hanging beside it in Gallery 522: Garden in Sochi, Diary of a Seducer

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: He Is Arisen, Untitled (Study for The Inner World), Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, Enak's Tears (Terrestrial Forms), Synchromy in Blue, Encounter

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