Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)

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细节

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)

Portrait of a man with beard (B. 31)

woodcut, possiby an unique impression, 1919, on very thin laid Japan, signed and dated in pencil, with margins, laid down allover on thin Japan, tapestains in the tips of each corner and in the centre upper, left and lower sheet edges, few lesser defects
L. 120 x 90 mm.; S. 165 x 135 mm.

来源

given to the present owner by J.R.Kist, Laren

拍品专文

Bool (Leven en Werk van M.C. Escher, Amsterdam, 1981) described this print from a photostat of an impression in an unknown collection (op.cit. p. 330); the present lot would thus appear to be the only other impression known

See illustration