Sep 20, 2012 - Sale 2286

Sale 2286 - Lot 524

Price Realized: $ 31,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
MAURITS C. ESCHER
Ascending and Descending.

Lithograph, 1960. 365x294 mm; 14 1/2x11 5/8 inches, wide margins. Signed and numbered "No. 5/108 III" in pencil, lower right. A superb, evenly-printed impression.

The "never-ending" staircase on the roof of this imaginary building is based on a geometric model by the mathematician L. S. Penrose. Bool 435.
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