| Print Gallery (B.410) 1956 #21/43
signed and numbered first edition lithograph
A man gazes at a lovely picture in a print gallery which contains pictures much like Escher’s work. He admires a view of Malta which Escher recreated from his own 1935 woodcut, but here this view expands to encompass a seaside town in which there is a print gallery where a man gazes at a lovely picture. And so, the world we see around us also contains us within it, and in fact, this may all be our own creation. The artist’s mathematically spiraling grid resolved into a void where Escher both drew and signed his name, thus placing himself in the very center of this remarkable universe. Perhaps the man we see in this picture is actually admiring the artist who created everything we see. Bruno Ernst, the artist’s close friend and author of ‘The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher,’ considers this to be Escher’s greatest print. |
