Details
MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER (1898-1972)
Ant Mobius Strip
pencil on tracing paper
Image: 1838 x 918 x in. (466 x 232 mm.)
Sheet: 1938 x 1434 in. (490 x 375 mm.)
Drawn circa 1963
Provenance
M.C. Escher Foundation, Baarn (gift from the artist, October 1969; on deposit with The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, no. T476-x-1971).
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. 1358.
FURTHER DETAILS
This is a preliminary drawing for Mobius Strip II (Red Ants) (Bool 441).
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Lot Essay

"And so I can keep on going on and on never to make a new picture again...But that I flatly refuse to do, because there's a Möbius strip waiting in my soul. Every now and then I hear it scream: I want out! I want out!

- M.C. Escher, letter to his son George and daughter-in-law Corrie, 19 January 1961

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