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Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
MAURITS C. ESCHER Encounter.
Lithograph on cream wove paper, 1944. 343x468 mm; 13 1/2x18 3/8 inches, full margins. Signed and inscribed "No. 19/30 III" in pencil, lower left. A superb, dark and well-inked impression with strong contrasts.
Escher was first and foremost a printmaker, creating hundreds of lithographs and woodcuts over the course of his career. He experimented with fantastically impossible architectural renderings and tessellations after a 1922 visit to the sprawling Moorish palace La Alhambra in Granada, Spain. Escher wrote of the interest, "It remains an extremely absorbing activity, a real mania to which I have become addicted, and from which I sometimes find it hard to tear myself away." Bool 331.
