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Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
MAURITS C. ESCHER Contrast (Order and Chaos).
Lithograph, 1950. 280x280 mm; 11x11 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower left. A very good impression of this extremely scarce lithograph.
We have found only seven other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.
In the center of Contrast (Order and Chaos) is a perfectly symmetrical spatial figure: an almost transparent stellated dodecahedron that has been merged with a glass sphere. The object is surrounded by an assortment of broken and otherwise disorderly objects. The title is self-explanatory: the crystal represents order and discipline, whereas the objects around it symbolize chaos. In retrospect, perhaps Escher was sensing something when he made this lithograph. His fame began to soar in the 1950s, as would the chaos that fame brought his way. Bool 366.
