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MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER (1898-1972)
Farmhouse, Ravello
lithograph, on cream wove paper watermark Holland, 1932, signed in pencil, numbered 'No 2/25', with margins
Image: 914 x 1214 in. (233 x 311 mm.)
Sheet: 1212 x 1612 in. (320 x 420 mm.)
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, Prints by Maurits Cornelis Escher, 16 February 1980, lot 34.
Literature
Bool 207
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Lot Essay

"Where architecture is concerned, I have been heavily influenced in my pictures by southern Italian structures, in which one can often recognize Norma, Romanesque, Saracen and Moorish influences. I am, among other things, crazy about domes like bread rolls and flat, white-washed rooftops and stucco walls. I saw almost all of these elements on the Amalfi coast (Positano, Amalfi, Atrani, Maiori, Minori, Ravello). What speaks in my pictures is a form of nostalgia for the sunny south."

- M.C. Escher, journal entry, Amalfi coast, 1969

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