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Lot Essay
`A graphic artist has something of the troubadour within him. He sings and repeats the same song in each print he creates from the same woodblock, copperplate or lithographic stone.'
For the frontispiece with the opening line of his treatise Regular Division of the Plane, Escher used the woodcut Self-Portrait in a Spherical Mirror, in the manner of a medieval manuscript, to decorate the elaborate red G of 'graficus'. The book is Escher's most elaborate exposition of his interest in tessellation, illustrated with his own wood engravings.
In the dedication to his eldest brother Johan George Escher and his wife Emelie on the fly leaf, Escher signs off with the cryptic initials ‘v.d. S’. Pronounced as ‘van de Es’, this ubiquitous Netherlandish surname is comparable to 'Smith' in the English-speaking world. With this everyman nom de plume, an insider joke known only to his family, Escher self-deprecatingly mocks his growing reputation.
For the frontispiece with the opening line of his treatise Regular Division of the Plane, Escher used the woodcut Self-Portrait in a Spherical Mirror, in the manner of a medieval manuscript, to decorate the elaborate red G of 'graficus'. The book is Escher's most elaborate exposition of his interest in tessellation, illustrated with his own wood engravings.
In the dedication to his eldest brother Johan George Escher and his wife Emelie on the fly leaf, Escher signs off with the cryptic initials ‘v.d. S’. Pronounced as ‘van de Es’, this ubiquitous Netherlandish surname is comparable to 'Smith' in the English-speaking world. With this everyman nom de plume, an insider joke known only to his family, Escher self-deprecatingly mocks his growing reputation.