ESC 01                   FISH                      h. 20 cm

ESC 02           FISH-BIRD-SKY           h. 18 cm

Fish (1938) (pencil, ink, water-colour and gold paint on Japanese paper) Four-colour regular division of the plane, based on a combination of a square and isosceles triangle system.

Air and Water (1938) (woodcut) Here, Escher uses his famous metamorphosis technique to make the figures dissapear into the background and thus show the inseparability of life from the elements.

ESC 03                  FISH-BIRD           h. 17 cm

Bird-Fish (1938) (Water-colour, ink and coloured pencil on Japanese paper) In this systematic cover of the plane, based on a rotation parallelogram system, Escher used for the first time a double motive.

ESC 04           SPHERE, FISH                 h. 7 cm

 SPHERE, ANGELS AND DEVILS

ESC05                               h. 8 cm

Sphere with fish, Beech wood (1940) A systematic division of the plane, based on a triple rotation.

Sphere with angels and devils, Maple (1942) A systematic division of the plane, based on a triple rotation.