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image of Still Life and Street
M.C. Escher (artist)
Dutch, 1898 - 1972
Still Life and Street, 1937
woodcut
image: 48.7 x 49 cm (19 3/16 x 19 5/16 in.) sheet: 61 x 58.4 cm (24 x 23 in.)
Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection
All M.C. Escher works © Cordon Art-Baarn-the Netherlands. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
1974.28.5
From the Tour: M.C. Escher — Life and Work
Object 11 of 24

This is one of Escher's earliest prints of an impossible construction. Escher has joined in a single perspective a table covered with books and objects and a view of the street below.

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