M. C. Escher, Horsemen (1946). Photo: courtesy Christie’s. As the auction title suggests, the sale featured many of the mind-bending works for which Escher is best-known.

M.C. Escher, “Mummified Priests” (1932), lithograph, 8 x 10 4/5 inches During this time, Escher was still a naturalistic illustrator, rather than the optical illusionist he would become.

As “M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity” reveals, the answer is yes. Escher’s work meshed, to an uncanny degree, with the trippy aesthetics of the counterculture, as much as “The Lord of the ...

Flint Journal extras Art of perception art exhibit "M.C. Escher: Rhythm of Illusion" • When: Saturday through June 15 • Where: Flint Institute of Arts, 1120 E. Kearsley St. • Details: (810 ...

M.C. Escher — he of never-ending stairwells, fish morphing into flowers, hands drawing one another, expert use of glass globes, and math-minded imagineer of infinite nesting universes — is an ...

We spoke to the Currier Museum of Art's Senior Educator, Jane Oneail about the M.C. Escher retrospective that opens September 20th on the show today and… ...

It features 135 works created by M.C. Escher, the Dutch artist known for such works as "Drawing Hands" which shows two partially drawn hands, each drawing the other, and "Waterfall," which ...

M.C. Escher (1898–1972), an artist of enigmas, has this larger enigma about him: He is inexplicably overrated or inexplicably underappreciated, depending on how you look at him.

During his lifetime, famed graphic artist M.C. Escher explored the concepts of mathematical infinity and impossible geometry in a series of wood prints, lithographs, and mezzotints. One thing ...

Math underlies many of the art pieces M.C. Escher created, because he was fascinated with the idea of depicting infinity in various ways, producing infinitely repeatable patterns known as ...