Circle Limit III
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Circle Limit III is a woodcut made in 1959 by Dutch artist M. C. Escher, in which "strings of fish shoot up like rockets from infinitely far away" and then "fall back again whence they came".
Circle Limit III, 1959
Marble floor mosaic Basilica of St Mark Vencice
FWF Samuel Monnier
H. S. M. Coxeter
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Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter was a British-Canadian geometer and mathematician. He is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
Circle Limit III
…of his 1937 artwork Metamorphosis I he had begun incorporating tessellated human and animal figures into his artworks. In a 1958 letter from Escher to H. S. M. Coxeter, Escher wrote that he was inspired to make his Circle Limit series by a figure in Coxeter's article "Crystal Symmetry and its Generalizations". Coxeter's…
Coxeter in 1970