Rind, May 1955 Escher, M.C. colour wood engraving and woodcut on laid japan paper 43.3 x 30.7 cm; image: 34.5 x 23.5 cm
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This combined woodcut and wood engraving print is a portrait of Jetta Escher, the artist's wife. It is also one of Escher's many attempts to represent three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface (such as a sheet of paper). Here, he creates the illusion of volume with a thin ribbon.
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