M.C. Escher - Litho, Convex and Concaaf - Sold

MC Escher Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) is one of the world's most famous graphic artists. His art is admired by millions of people worldwide. After completing his schooling, he traveled for a long time through Italy, among other places, where he met his wife Jetta Umiker and whom he married in 1924. They go to Rome, where they live until 1935. During these 11 years, MC Escher travels through Italy every year, making drawings and sketches that he later uses for his prints at home in his studio. He later used many of these sketches for his lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings. During the time he lives and works in Italy, he creates beautiful, more realistic works such as the lithograph Castrovalva in which one can see all his fascination with perspective. He is most famous for his so-called impossible drawings, such as Ascending and Descending and Relativity, but also for his metamorphoses, such as Metamorphosis I, II and III, Air and Water I and Reptiles. He plays with architecture, perspective and impossible spaces. His art continues to amaze and amaze millions of people around the world. In his work we recognize his excellent observation of the world around us and the expression of his own fantasy. MC Escher shows us that reality is wonderful, understandable and fascinating.