Details
MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER (1898-1972)
Freighter
pencil on paper
Image: 1934 x 1412 in. (500 x 370 mm.)
Sheet: 22.6/8 x 1814 in. (575 x 462 mm.)
Drawn circa 1936
Provenance
M.C. Escher Foundation, Baarn (gift from the artist, October 1969; on deposit with The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, no. T120-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. 1608.
FURTHER DETAILS
This is a preliminary drawing for Freighter (Bool 285).
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"What a fantastic experience it is on a freighter like this, when waking up at night in your own cabin you are suddenly able to account for that contract with your immovable bed on land, in which you're used to lying still and horizontally, while your bed at sea is continuously rolling around that horizontality."

- M.C. Escher, letter to his son Arthur, 28 May 1955

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