Mar 06, 2014 - Sale 2341

Sale 2341 - Lot 617

Price Realized: $ 37,500
?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. 14/108 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.