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.
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Drawing Hands is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in January 1948
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Drawing Hands is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M.
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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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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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