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Sky and Water I, woodcut, 1938. "In the horizontal center strip, birds and fish are equal. But we associate flying with the air, so for the black bird the four white fish surrounding it are the air in which it flies. In the same way, swimming reminds us of water, so the four black birds surrounding the fish become for him the water in which he swims." ~ M.C. Escher, Grafiek en Tekeningen. Printed in black and white on poster paper. Paper size : 55 x 65 cm. Image size : 50 x 50 cm. Packaged in cardboard tube.
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Still life with Reflecting Globe, lithograph, 1934. "The same reflective sphere as depicted in Hand with Reflecting Sphere, but here from the side, like a bottle with a neck." ~ M.C. Escher, Grafiek en Tekeningen. Printed in black and white on 170 gram paper. Paper size : 65 x 55 cm. Image size approx : 50,5 x 44 cm. Packaged in cardboard tube.
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Printed in black and white on 170gram paper. Packaged in cardboard tube. Paper size : 55 x 65 cm. Image size approx : 48,4 x 46,7 cm.
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Three worlds, lithograph, 1955. "The representation of this forest pond consists of three elements: the autumn leaves that indicate the plane of the water surface, the mirror images of three trees in the background, and the fish in the foreground in the transparent water." ~ M.C. Escher, Grafiek en Tekeningen. Printed in black and white on poster paper. Paper size : 55 x 65 cm. Image size approx : 40 x 58 cm. Packaged in cardboard tube.
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Tower of Babel, woodcut, 1928. "It was assumed that the different races also emerged during the confusion of tongues; hence some construction workers are white, others black. The work has come to a standstill because they no longer understand each other. Since the quintessence of the drama takes place at the top of the tower under construction, it was shown, as if in a bird's eye view, from above. This resulted in the need for a strong perspective shift downwards." ~ M.C. Escher, Grafiek en Tekeningen. Printed in black and white on 170 gram paper. Paper size : 55 x 65 cm. Image size approx : 32,3 x 52 cm. Packaged in cardboard tube.
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Up & Down, lithograph, 1947. "This print shows the same scene twice, but viewed from different points of view. The upper half shows that view for a spectator who is at a height of approximately three floors; the lower half shows the scene that he observes from the ground floor. If he looks upwards from there, he sees the tiled floor on which he is standing, repeated as a ceiling in the center of the composition. But at the very top, this tiled surface is repeated exclusively as a ceiling." ~ M.C. Escher, Grafiek en Tekeningen. Printed in black and white on poster paper. Paper size : 45 x 79,5 cm. Image size approx : 29,5 x 72,5 cm. Packaged in cardboard tube.
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Verbum, lithograph, 1942. "An evolution from the center outwards, offers more room for mature figures along the edges. The central word 'Verbum' recalls the biblical creation story. Triangular primordial figures emerge from misty gray, which, on the edges of the regular hexagon, evolved into birds, fish and frogs, each in their own element: air, water and earth. Each species appears in two conditions: day and night. They flow into each other and move along the circumference of the hexagon , in a clockwise direction." ~ M.C. Escher, Grafiek en Tekeningen. Printed in black and white on 170gram paper. Paper size : 65 x 55 cm. Image size approx : 54,2 x 46,5 cm. Packaged in cardboard tube.
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Waterfall, lithograph, 1961. "In the same British Journal of Psychology article that inspired Ascending and Descending, R. Penrose published the perspective drawing of a triangle. A copy of which is reproduced here. It is composed of square beams placed at right angles to each other. If we follow all the parts of this construction one by one, no error can be discovered. Yet it is an impossible construct, because there are sudden changes in the interpretation of the distance between our eye and our object. The impossible triangle is applied three times. Falling water sets a mill wheel in motion and then flows slowly in a zigzag manner down a sloping chute between two towers to the point where the waterfall begins again. The miller has to add a bucket of water every now and then to eliminate losses due to evaporation. The two towers are the same height and yet the right one is one floor lower than the left." ~ M.C. Escher, Grafiek en Tekeningen. Printed in black and white on poster paper. Paper size : 55 x 65 cm. Image size approx : 40 x 50 cm. Packaged in cardboard tube.
