Print-Multiple

Lithograph/Van Gelder wove paper

Ed. 700

36.1 x 24.4 cm

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) is one of the world's most famous graphic artists. During the time that he lives and works in Italy, he already creates realistic works such as the lithograph Castrovalva in which the fascination with perspective can be seen. He is most famous for his so-called impossible drawings, such as Ascending and Descending and Relativity. During his life, Escher made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings and more than 2000 drawings and sketches. M.C. Escher is fascinated by the regular geometric figures of the wall and floor mosaics in the Alhambra, a fourteenth-century castle in Granada, Spain, which he visits in 1922 and 1936. He plays with architecture, perspective and impossible spaces. M.C. Escher shows us that reality is wonderful, understandable and fascinating. He is therefore (also) an exponent of magical realism.