Maurits Cornelis Escher

Zuil (Column)

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Maurits Cornelis Escher
Zuil (Column)
gouache on paper mounted on a tube on a wooden base, 1962, a unique piece, planefilling design for a column for Provinciale Waterstaat, Haarlem, stained by the adhesive plastic laminate covering the paper, otherwise in good condition
Height 588 mm.

Literature

F.H. Bool et al, Leven en werk van M.C. Escher, Amsterdam, 1981, p. 120/121, 123 (Ill.)
W. Hazeu, M.C. Escher. Een biografie, Amsterdam, 1998, p. 436

Lot Essay

In a letter to his son George dated 13 January 1962 Escher writes that he appreciated the commission for this column, but all the same he regretted the task because it withheld him from undertaking a new print.
The actual column, decorated with tiles after Escher's design, was reveiled on March 23, 1962

See colour illustration

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