Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s M.C. Escher exhibit takes the popular artist off the...
“It brings a whole new light to Escher, seeing these in person, not just in a book or a reproduction or a poster,” says Dena Woodall, curator, prints and drawings at the MFAH. “That’s the way a lot of us learned about Escher. But for me, this has been a revelation.”
“I have buddies who collect Eschers, who are serious about it and spend lots of money,” he says. “They’d come here and die for these.”Sachs is eager to guide viewers through Escher’s work, though he stops at “Hand With Reflecting Globe.” The famed 1935 lithograph of Escher looking into a reflective globe is one of the artist’s most famous images.
The exhibition follows Escher’s work from the Netherlands to Rome and Spain. While landscapes and architecture changed based on place, Escher’s fascination with presentation also evolved sharply. “If you take a Chagall watercolor or a Calder watercolor, you photograph it, print it on lithographic paper in an edition of 100, signed and numbered, it’s not the same thing,” Sachs says. “It’s not the same as when you have an artist who used a wood block and cut into it, and you print directly from that.”
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