Editing M. C. Escher (section)

=== In art collections ===

The Escher intellectual property is controlled by the M.C. Escher Company, while exhibitions of his artworks are managed separately by the M.C. Escher Foundation.{{efn|In 1969, Escher's business advisor, Jan W. Vermeulen, author of a biography on the artist, established the M.C. Escher Foundation, and transferred into this entity virtually all of Escher's unique work as well as hundreds of his original prints. These works were lent by the Foundation to the Hague Museum. Upon Escher's death, his three sons dissolved the Foundation, and they became partners in the ownership of the art works. In 1980, this holding was sold to an American art dealer and the Hague Museum. The Museum obtained all of the documentation and the smaller portion of the art works. The copyrights remained the possession of Escher's three sons&nbsp;– who later sold them to Cordon Art, a Dutch company. Control was subsequently transferred to The M.C. Escher Company B.V. of Baarn, Netherlands, which licenses use of the copyrights on all of Escher's art and on his spoken and written text. A related entity, the M.C. Escher Foundation of Baarn, promotes Escher's work by organizing exhibitions, publishing books and producing films about his life and work.<ref>{{cite web |title=Copyrights&Licensing |url=http://www.mcescher.com/licensing/ |website=M.C. Escher |access-date=2 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151108203426/http://www.mcescher.com/licensing/ |archive-date=8 November 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=M.C. Escher Foundation |url=http://www.mcescher.com/foundation/ |website=M.C. Escher |access-date=2 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151107185518/http://www.mcescher.com/foundation/ |archive-date=7 November 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}

The primary institutional collections of original works by M.C. Escher are exhibited at the [[Escher Museum]] in [[The Hague]] (which are part of the large collection of the Kunstmuseum there<ref>{{Cite web |title=Escher |url=https://www.kunstmuseum.nl/en/collections/escher |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=www.kunstmuseum.nl |language=en}}</ref>); the [[National Gallery of Art]] (Washington, DC);<ref>{{cite web |title=Tour: M.C. Escher — Life and Work |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggescher/ggescher-main1.html |publisher=National Gallery of Art |access-date=4 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223095836/http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggescher/ggescher-main1.html |archive-date=23 December 2015 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> the [[National Gallery of Canada]] (Ottawa);<ref>{{cite web |title=Collections: M.C. Escher |url=http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=1655 |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |access-date=4 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801122239/http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=1655 |archive-date=1 August 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the [[Israel Museum]] (Jerusalem);<ref>{{cite web|title=May 2013 (newsletter)|url=http://www.imj.org.il/news/eng/2013/May.html|publisher=Israel Museum Jerusalem|access-date=4 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705195240/http://www.imj.org.il/news/eng/2013/May.html|archive-date=5 July 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the [[Huis Ten Bosch (theme park)|Huis ten Bosch]] (Nagasaki, Japan).<ref>{{cite web|title=M. C. Escher|url=http://www.huistenbosch.co.jp/event/escher/|publisher=Huis Ten Bosch Museum, Nagasaki|access-date=4 November 2015|language=ja|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009075653/http://www.huistenbosch.co.jp/event/escher/|archive-date=9 October 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>