• Hayter created this print around the time that he and Indian artists Krishna Reddy and Kaiko Moti developed a method for producing multiple impressions from a simultaneous color/viscosity print. This impression is one of four color trial proofs done in addition to the published edition of one hundred. The impressions were made in Atelier 17, with St. George’s Gallery in London as the publisher.

• The printing record for this work reads: “intaglio black, roller red violet through stencil, roller blue through stencil, roller yellow through stencil.” It is an early example of the use of soft rollers to lay colors of lower viscosity over colors already applied to the surface of the plate, using stencils to offset the colors.

• St. George’s Gallery Books was a bookshop in London established by Agatha Sadler around 1950. It specialized in rare art books and exhibited the works of many printmakers from Atelier 17. The gallery closed in the early 1990s.

Hayter created this print around the time that he and Indian artists Krishna Reddy and Kaiko Moti developed a method for producing multiple impressions from a simultaneous color/viscosity print. This impression is one of four color trial proofs done in addition to the published edition of one hundred. The impressions were made in Atelier 17, with St. George’s Gallery in London as the publisher.

The printing record for this work reads: “intaglio black, roller red violet through stencil, roller blue through stencil, roller yellow through stencil.” It is an early example of the use of soft rollers to lay colors of lower viscosity over colors already applied to the surface of the plate, using stencils to offset the colors.

St. George’s Gallery Books was a bookshop in London established by Agatha Sadler around 1950. It specialized in rare art books and exhibited the works of many printmakers from Atelier 17. The gallery closed in the early 1990s.This print adds to the story of famed printmaking workshop Atelier 17 in Paris, founded by Hayter. He developed the technique of color viscosity / simultaneous color inking with Krishna Reddy and Kaiko Moti, both from India, in the late 1950s. Atelier 17 was, and still is, a hub for innovative printmaking and a destination for artists around the world.