M. C. Escher : 16 facsimile prints.

With an introduction by J. L. Locher, former Director of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Baarn [The Netherlands] : The Escher Foundation, 2008. Sixteen museum quality giclee reproduction prints of some of Escher’s most iconic images, printed on  310 gsm. handmade and acid-free German Etching paper from Hahnemühle, each 650 x 550 mm, accompanied by a 16 page booklet on Escher’s graphics and a key to the images, housed in a linen bound solander box with title label meaning 670 x 570 x 30 mm, a mint copy. Printed in an edition of 450 numbered copies.

This special collection consists of the highest quality “Museum quality” facsimile reprints of 16 of the most famous lithographs, woodcuts and drawings by the graphic artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972). Each copyright-protected image is printed in a limited edition of only 450, individually numbered and stamped with the authentication seal of the M. C. Escher Foundation. The following prints are included, with date and reference number: Castrovalva, 1930 (Bool 132); Hand with Reflecting Sphere, 1935 (Bool 268); Sky and Water I, 1938 (Bool 306); Reptiles, 1943 (Bool 327); Other World, 1947 (Bool 348); Up and Down, 1947 (Bool 352); Relativity, 1953 (Bool 389); Three Worlds, 1955 (Bool 405); Bond of Union, 1956 (Bool 409); Ascending and Descending, 1960 (Bool 435); Waterfall, 1961 (Bool 439); and five studies of patterns without Bool catalogue number, namely one with geese, “Two Birds”, 1938 – a pattern used in “Day and Night” (Bool 303); one with fish and birds, “Bird/Fish”, 1938, used in the Metamorphosis designs (e.g. Bool 446); one with lizards, “Lizard”, 1942, used in Development (Bool 310-311) and Reptiles (Bool 327); one with horsemen “Horseman”, 1946 (Bool, p. 150; used in Bool 342), and one with various birds “Twelve Birds”, 1948.

A fine copy, as new.