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2. Print Gallery (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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   Lithograph Print Gallery by M. C. Escher, 1956. Print Gallery (Dutch: Prentententoonstelling) is a lithograph printed in 1956 by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher.It depicts a man in a gallery viewing a print of a seaport, and among the buildings in the seaport is the very gallery in which he is standing, making use of the Droste effect with visual recursion. [1]

3. M. C. Escher - Wikipedia

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   Poster advertising the first major exhibition of Escher's work in Britain (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 14 October 2015 – 17 January 2016). The image, which shows Escher and his interest in geometric distortion and multiple levels of distance from reality, is based on his Hand with Reflecting Sphere , 1935.

4. Relativity (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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   Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953. The first version of this work was a woodcut made earlier that same year. [1] It depicts a world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply. The architectural structure seems to be the centre of an idyllic community, with most of its ...

5. Snakes (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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   Snakes is a woodcut print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher. The work was first printed in July 1969, and was Escher's last print before his death. [1] Snakes depicts a disc made up of interlocking circles that grow progressively smaller towards the center and towards the edge. There are three snakes laced through the edge of the disc.

6. House of Stairs - Wikipedia

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   House of Stairs is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in November 1951. This print measures 47 cm × 24 cm (18 + 5 ⁄ 8 in × 9 + 3 ⁄ 8 in). It depicts the interior of a tall structure crisscrossed with stairs and doorways. A total of 46 wentelteefje (imaginary creatures created by Escher) are crawling on the ...

7. Double Planetoid - Wikipedia

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   Double Planetoid is part of a series of Escher's prints from the 1940s and 1950s that depict small polyhedral planets, also including Gravitation (1952) and Tetrahedral Planetoid (1954), [4] and possibly in the same universe as his print Stars (1948). [1]

8. Puddle (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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   Puddle is a woodcut print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in February 1952. Since 1936, Escher's work had become primarily focused on paradoxes, tessellation and other abstract visual concepts. This print, however, is a realistic depiction of a simple image that portrays two perspectives at once.

9. Day and Night (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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   A blue variant of the print sold for $94,062.50 in Los Angeles in 2022. [3] Escher became interested in how forms could fit together to create what Sarah Lawson calls "paradoxical patterns", as when the black geese in Day and Night emerge from the darkened spaces between the white geese that are flying in the opposite direction. [4]