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HAYTER Signed Oil Painting 1978 British Abstract

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HAYTER Signed Oil Painting 1978 British Abstract
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STANLEY WILLIAM HAYTER 1901-1988
London 1901- 1988 Paris

Title: Abstract Composition, 1978

Technique: Original Signed, Inscribed and Dated Oil and Graphite on canvas

Size: 18 x 14 cm / 7.1 x 5.5 in

Additional Information: The work is signed twice at the lower right and left corners. It is also dated at the lower left part '78.
The work is furthermore inscribed on the reverse: "Well. Well Hayter 78".
It was painted in 1978.

Provenance : Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris
The Lefebvre-Foinet collection of more than 200 paintings, drawings, and sculptures by such artists as Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst, Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, Balthus, Victor Brauner, Matta, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Joan Mitchell, Zao Wou-Ki and Hayter was amassed by five generations of the family whose Left Bank shop furnished these artists with brushes, canvases, and paper, but most of all their famous tubes of colors and paints made from hand-ground natural pigments.
Paul Foinet founded the business in the 1880s, marketing his traditional artisan-made products by door-to-door visits to artist’s studios. In 1902, Foinet’s son-in-law, Lucien Lefebvre, opened the Montparnase premises on rue Bréa, called Lefebvre-Foinet, that would serve the art establishment for the next 90 years. Lucien was succeeded by his son, Maurice, a renowned figure, and then by Maurice’s daughter, Josette. Even after the Paris shop was closed in the mid-1990s, Lefebvre-Foinet honored a commitment to continue to make tubes and colors for about a dozen artists.
Along with art supplies, the Lefebvre-Foinets dispensed friendship, encouragement, advice, and often credit to indigent painters. American painter Dorothea Tanning (a.k.a. Mrs. Max Ernst) wrote in her autobiography of Monsieur Maurice’s “joviality towards gentlemen and gallantry in regard to ladies.”

Condition: Very good condition.