A golden urn decorated with paw prints for Gilbert was perched on a high table in the middle of the caskets, alongside a photo of the pooch and a bouquet of flowers. In a poignant gesture, members of ...

Escher may be best known for his mind-bending drawings, but a coming sale at Christie's shows a broader picture of the Dutch artist.

Mostly successful, “The Book of Records” is both a dystopian fantasy in the mode of Mohsin Hamid’s “Exit West” and an ode to a planet in crisis, riddles that mold our relationships. “We inherit ...

Estimated at $25,000 – 35,000, the striking work on paper depicts a man seated in the foreground holding an impossible cube - one of Escher's iconic paradoxical structures. Also on offer is the first ...

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.

Let us know! Over the weekend, the Front St. Gallery in Fishtown showcased original prints and works inspired by famed Dutch artist M.C. Escher. Maurits Cornelis Escher completed 448 lithographs, ...

You can see how it was more successful with an MC Escher lithograph compared to Thomas Eakins’s “Portrait of Dr. Samuel D Gross (The Gross Clinic)” (1875) — in the latter, a creepy Francis ...