It may be not so much that Seth loved the work of MC Escher, but that he felt a kinship with it. Like Escher Seth was a mathematical sort of artist who loved visual puns, a complex kind of symmetry, 
designs that repeated,but where the repetitions are not exactly the same.
What Escher termed Symmetry drawings like the ones posted here, Seth used as a jumping board to start thinking about the complex repetitive images that he called Tessellations.
He loved making these things. It was something that he did entirely for himself; he got very little revenue from them: a few posters sold, that's all. However, at the time of his death he was in the midst of negotiations with a fabric manufacturer to do some fabric designs. Another person wanted him to paint some ceramic tiles with a Seth Fisher repeated design. So it is possible that he would have started to do tessellation work that made him some money.
He loved making these things. It was something that he did entirely for himself; he got very little revenue from them: a few posters sold, that's all. However, at the time of his death he was in the midst of negotiations with a fabric manufacturer to do some fabric designs. Another person wanted him to paint some ceramic tiles with a Seth Fisher repeated design. So it is possible that he would have started to do tessellation work that made him some money.
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A Seth! clothing line...I can see it now...
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