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Ascending and descending (Klimmen en dalen) (Bool 435)
Details
Maurits Cornelis Escher
Ascending and descending (Klimmen en dalen) (Bool 435)
lithograph, 1960, on Van Gelder wove paper, signed in pencil, numbered No, 13/50II, with margins, with dedication in pencil writing to the artist's brother and sister in law: "Het koor der monniken: Wij klimmen stap voor stap naar boven,- of dalen af-; het geeft ons niets: wij blijven waar wij waren. Onze rituele, dagelijkse oefening is zinvol, maar nutteloos.
Voor Beer en Emmy van Mauk, Baarn, 14 - XII - '65"
(The choir of monks: we ascend step by step, - or descend; it does not matter: we stay where we were. Our ritual, daily exercise is meaningful, but useless. To Beer and Emmy from Mauk, Baarn, 14- XII - '65)
pale mountstaining, few foxmarks, waterstaining with related minor rippling and discoloration along the sheets margins, well away from the subject and dedication, otherwise generally in very good condition
L. 348 x 280 mm.; S. 475 x 385 mm.
Ascending and descending (Klimmen en dalen) (Bool 435)
lithograph, 1960, on Van Gelder wove paper, signed in pencil, numbered No, 13/50II, with margins, with dedication in pencil writing to the artist's brother and sister in law: "Het koor der monniken: Wij klimmen stap voor stap naar boven,- of dalen af-; het geeft ons niets: wij blijven waar wij waren. Onze rituele, dagelijkse oefening is zinvol, maar nutteloos.
Voor Beer en Emmy van Mauk, Baarn, 14 - XII - '65"
(The choir of monks: we ascend step by step, - or descend; it does not matter: we stay where we were. Our ritual, daily exercise is meaningful, but useless. To Beer and Emmy from Mauk, Baarn, 14- XII - '65)
pale mountstaining, few foxmarks, waterstaining with related minor rippling and discoloration along the sheets margins, well away from the subject and dedication, otherwise generally in very good condition
L. 348 x 280 mm.; S. 475 x 385 mm.
Provenance
A relative of M.C. Escher