JOURNEY TO INFINITY: ESCHER’S WORLD OF WONDER
Thanks to his growing notoriety, M.C. Escher was regularly commissioned to make artworks by officials and admirers around the world. He also received more modest requests, from a concert programme cover to simple greeting cards and ex-libris. M.C. Escher paid equal attention to these more minor commissions, adapting his large compositions language to suit smaller scale projects.
M.C. Escher
Verblifa Tin
1963
Private Collection, Italy
This box has been produced in series for Verblifa, a Dutch company celebrating its 75th anniversary.
It has 20 faces (icosahedron) and is decorated with repeating pattern of sea-shells and starfish in print and embossed relief.
M.C. Escher
Postage Stamps for Suriname
1949
Private Collection, Italy
The Netherlands post office commissioned M.C. Escher to design stamps for the 75th anniversary of the World Postal Union.