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MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER (1898-1972)
Day and Night
woodcut in black and grey, 1938, on tissue-thin Japon paper, signed in pencil
Block 390 x 679 mm.
Sheet 422 x 700 mm.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist; then by descent.
Literature
Bool 303
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"My little birds, little fish and frogs cannot be described: all they ask for is to be thought through, they ask for a mode of thought that I have found to be present in only very few people. It is a kind of small philosophy that has nothing to do with literature, a pleasure in arranging forms and in giving meaning to each part of the plane. It has much more to do with music than with literature."

- M.C. Escher, letter to G.H's-Gravesande, 14 March 1940.

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