Circle Limit III

Circle Limit III, 1959

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".[1]

It is one of a series of four woodcuts by Escher depicting ideas from hyperbolic geometry. Dutch physicist and mathematician Bruno Ernst called it "the best of the four".[2]

  1. ^ Escher, as quoted by Coxeter (1979).
  2. ^ Coxeter, H. S. M. (1979), "The non-Euclidean symmetry of Escher's picture 'Circle Limit III'", Leonardo, 12: 19–25, JSTOR 1574078.