Name: MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER (1898-1972)
Brand: Senglea, Malta
Price: 85000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

MAURITS CORNELIS ESCHER (1898-1972)
Senglea, Malta
dated, titled and inscribed 'MALTA 27-5-'35 COL "VERDI" (ADRIA)' (lower center)
pencil on paper squared for transfer
9¹⁄₂ x 12⁵⁄₈ in. (242 x 322 mm.)
Drawn on 27 May 1935

M.C. Escher Foundation, Baarn (gift from the artist, October 1969; on deposit with The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, no. T167-x-1972).
Michael S. Sachs, Inc., Westport (acquired from the above, 1980).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, October 1980.

M.C. Escher-Archive: Drawings, Microfiche no. 1551.

This is a preliminary drawing for Senglea, Malta (Bool 276).

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[Escher's] stay in Italy came to an end in 1935; but first Escher made a final tour through Sicily with Haas-Triverio. On 9 May they left Rome by train. From Palermo they travelled through Agrigento and Ragusa to Syracuse. On the way Escher made drawings of windmill at Trapani, the temple ruins of the Greek city of Selinunte, and the weird rocks of Caltabellotta. From Syracuse they took a freighter to Malta, where they stayed for two das. They had plenty of time to draw the harbour at Valletta, with its suburb Senglea and the Verdi, a steamer of the Adria company.

F.H.Bool, M.C. Escher: His Life and Complete Graphic Work, 1981, p. 38.