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Auction archive: Lot number 52

MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER

Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$67,765 - US$101,647
Price realised:
£139,250
ca. US$235,907
Auction archive: Lot number 52

MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER

Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$67,765 - US$101,647
Price realised:
£139,250
ca. US$235,907
Beschreibung:

Maurits Cornelis Escher 1898-1972 METAMORPHOSIS II (BOOL /KIST/LOCHER/WIE 320) Woodcut printed in black, blue and red, a fine impression of this rare print, the colours fresh, 1940, signed in pencil and inscribed eigen druck, on five joined sheets of tissue thin japan paper, with full (?) margins, in good condition apart from a foxmark in the unprinted area of lizards and other very occasional foxing, a small paper loss at edge of sheet and other small areas of thinning at outer edges of sheet, a small area at joint in the area of the fish where touches of black ink have been added by hand, probably during the printing process, occasional very slight creasing along edges of sheet Image: 190 by 3900mm; 7 1/2 by 153 6/8 in Sheet: 288 by 4015mm; 11 3/8 by 158 1/8 in

Auction archive: Lot number 52
Auction:
Datum:
2 Oct 2008
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

Maurits Cornelis Escher 1898-1972 METAMORPHOSIS II (BOOL /KIST/LOCHER/WIE 320) Woodcut printed in black, blue and red, a fine impression of this rare print, the colours fresh, 1940, signed in pencil and inscribed eigen druck, on five joined sheets of tissue thin japan paper, with full (?) margins, in good condition apart from a foxmark in the unprinted area of lizards and other very occasional foxing, a small paper loss at edge of sheet and other small areas of thinning at outer edges of sheet, a small area at joint in the area of the fish where touches of black ink have been added by hand, probably during the printing process, occasional very slight creasing along edges of sheet Image: 190 by 3900mm; 7 1/2 by 153 6/8 in Sheet: 288 by 4015mm; 11 3/8 by 158 1/8 in

Auction archive: Lot number 52
Auction:
Datum:
2 Oct 2008
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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