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Thursday 16 May 2024, 03:30 PM • Rome

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Maurits Cornelis Escher

(Leeuwarden 1898 - Laren 1972)

The Fifth day of the Creation, 1926

Artist's Resale Right

Estimate

€ 8.000 - 10.000

Sold

€ 126.090

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

woodcut
37,5 x 28,4 cm (43,2 x 33,5 cm sheet size)

Signed in pencil lower left on the margin: M.C. Escher

Lower left in the plate the reference: GEN.1: 20-23 (Genesis, chapter 1, verses 20-23) followed by monogram and date: MCE, 2.'26 (Maurits Cornelis Escher, February 1926).



Provenance

Acquired directly from the Author by the current owner's father in 1935

Literature

F.H. Bool, M.C. Escher, His Life and Complete Graphic Work, J.L.Locher/ H.N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1982, p.209 n.108