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Drawing Hands

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Drawing Hands is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in January 1948. It depicts a sheet of paper from which two hands rise, each in the paradoxical act of drawing the other into existence, one of the clearest examples of Escher's recurring use of paradox.

Facts
Year Created
1948 1
Medium
Lithograph 1
Classification
Genre
Drawing 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Lithograph 1
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Created By

M. C. Escher, Artists
Source Drawing Hands - Wikipedia

In Form

Printmaking, Art Forms
Source Drawing Hands - Wikipedia

In Genre

Drawing, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. Drawing Hands - Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph, opening sentence
    Drawing Hands is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in January 1948
  • Infobox, Medium field
    Lithograph
  • Genre reference
    Drawing Hands is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M.
  • infobox medium field: Lithograph
  • In Form: Printmaking, lead paragraph
    Drawing Hands is a 1948 lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher in which two lifelike hands appear to emerge from a flat sheet of paper and draw each other. It is among the best-known works by Escher, and an example of an artw
  • Created By: M. C. Escher, lead paragraph
    Drawing Hands is a 1948 lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher in which two lifelike hands appear to emerge from a flat sheet of paper and draw each other. It is among the best-known works by Escher, and an example of an artw
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