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.

Escher, who was born in 1898 and died in 1972, was out of synch with his art-world contemporaries. He wasn’t interested in Cubism, social realism, or Abstract Expressionism.

View full size M.C. Escher Co. B.V. Baarn, The Netherlands M.C. Escher was obsessed with the idea of interlocking surface patterns arranged to suggest infinite depth on a flat surface.

Flint Journal extras Art of perception art exhibit "M.C. Escher: Rhythm of Illusion" • When: Saturday through June 15 • Where: Flint Institute of Arts, 1120 E. Kearsley St. • Details: (810 ...

• The Amazing World of MC Escher, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, until 27 September, www.nationalgalleries.org Related topics: Netherlands Dutchman Glasgow ...

Math underlies many of the art pieces M.C. Escher created, because he was fascinated with the idea of depicting infinity in various ways, producing infinitely repeatable patterns known as ...

''He didn’t want to be a painter because then you could only make one painting,'' says Mark Veldhuysen, curator of the M.C. Escher Foundation, established in 1968 to preserve the artist’s legacy.

The patterns were used in works of art and architecture at least 500 years before they were discovered in the West. An early example is Gunbad-i Qabud, an 1197 tomb tower in Maragha, Iran.

It’s an artwork that has been reproduced countless times in popular culture. But behind the familiar picture is a mysterious figure. Alastair Sooke goes in search of MC Escher. It must be one of ...

The late Dutch artist M.C. Escher is perhaps best known for his tessellations that fool the eye, like “Sky and Water I,” where birds in the air trade off negative space with fish underwater.

When we spoke with Nasher Museum of Art director Sarah Schroth for the museum’s 10th anniversary, she noted that, while she loves contemporary art, it doesn’t speak to everyone. That’s one ...