M.C. Escher
Sky and water I. 1938.
Estimate: 18.000 - 28.000 CHF
Price realised: 22.500 CHF
Price realised: 22.500 CHF
Description
Holzschnitt. Eigen druk, aus einer unbekanten Auflage. Unten links mit Bleistift signiert: MCEscher, sowie in der Platte mittig monogrammiert, datiert und nummeriert: MCE 6-'38. Darstellung 43,7 × 43,7 cm auf Japan 50,8 × 54 cm.
Privatsammlung Schweiz. | Privatsammlung Schweiz, durch Erbschaft erhalten. | Wir danken The M.C. Escher Company B.V. für die freundliche Unterstützung, Niederlande, 18.4.2024. | “Sometimes, just before I fall asleep at night, I have a beautiful vision. In my imagination I see the earth floating like an enormous orange, stately and still, in the pure emptiness surrounding her. I see her slowly rotating, always lit up and warmed on one side by her mother, the sun. Ribbons and shreds of cloud float around her, and between these the seas and the multi-coloured continents, with their humid plains and snowy mountaintops, sparkle and shimmer. And I see the hot, yellow deserts and the frozen po
Privatsammlung Schweiz. | Privatsammlung Schweiz, durch Erbschaft erhalten. | Wir danken The M.C. Escher Company B.V. für die freundliche Unterstützung, Niederlande, 18.4.2024. | “Sometimes, just before I fall asleep at night, I have a beautiful vision. In my imagination I see the earth floating like an enormous orange, stately and still, in the pure emptiness surrounding her. I see her slowly rotating, always lit up and warmed on one side by her mother, the sun. Ribbons and shreds of cloud float around her, and between these the seas and the multi-coloured continents, with their humid plains and snowy mountaintops, sparkle and shimmer. And I see the hot, yellow deserts and the frozen po
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