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MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER (1898-1972)
Positano
dated and titled 'POSITANO 5-'34' (upper right)
pencil on gray paper
2578 x 19 in. (656 x 480 mm.)
Drawn in May 1934
Provenance
M.C. Escher Foundation, Baarn (gift from the artist, October 1969; on deposit with The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, no. T152-x-69).
Michael S. Sachs, Inc., Westport (acquired from the above, 1980).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, October 1980.
Literature
M.C. Escher-Archive: Drawings, Microfiche no. 1648.
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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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