Description: SMALLER AND SMALLER I (1956) by M.C. EscherThis is a print taken from a vintage art book. Measures approximately 11 x 8" inches on a thick paper page. This would look fabulous if you framed it to match your decor. May or may not have an image and or text on the back.About the original: "‘The area of each of the reptile-shaped elements of this pattern is regularly and continuously halved towards the centre, where theoretically both infinite smallness in size and infinite greatness in number are reached. However, in practice, the wood-engraver soon reaches the end of his tether. He is dependent on four factors: the quality of his woodblock, the sharpness of his tool, the steadiness of his hand and his optical ability (good eyesight, plenty of light and a powerful magnifying lens). In this particular case, the halving of the figures is continued ad absurdum. The smallest animal still possessing a head, a tail and four legs is about two millimetres long." BIO: "M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations. Although Escher believed he had no mathematical ability, he interacted with the mathematicians George Pólya, Roger Penrose, Harold Coxeter and crystallographer Friedrich Haag, and conducted his own research into tessellation." PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS WE DO COMBINE SHIP CHECK OUT OUR STORE FOR OTHERS Track Page Views With Auctiva's FREE Counter
Price: 20 USD
Location: Erie, Pennsylvania
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Artist: M C Escher
Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
Image Orientation: Portrait
Size: Small (up to 12in.)
Signed: No
Title: SMALLER AND SMALLER I M C Escher
Period: Post-War (1940-1970)
Material: Paper
Item Length: 8 in
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Framing: Unframed
Original/Licensed Reprint: Licensed Reprint
Subject: Fish & Water Animals, Smaller and Smaller, Infinity, Reptiles
Personalize: No
Type: Print
Item Height: 11 in
Style: Surrealism
Theme: Animals, Reptiles
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Handmade: No
