Sale 3021
Amsterdam
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20 November 2012
Price realised
EUR 20,000
Estimate
Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) Day and Night woodcut, printed in grey and black, 1938, on Japan, with margins, signed in pencil, inscribed eigen druk, the sheet edges laid down onto the mount with plastic tape, the tape discoloured, one minor paper damage in lower right margin, otherwise generally in very good condition 392 x 677 mm.
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Literature
F.H. Bool (a.o.), Leven en werk van M.C. Escher, Amsterdam, 1981, no. 303, p. 273 (another print illustrated).
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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