Puddle
Maurits Cornelis Escher, Dutch, 1898 - 1972
1952
Color woodcut in black, green and brown on wove paper
Image: 9 7/16 × 12 1/2 in. (23.9 × 31.7 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 14 3/16 in. (28.6 × 36 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.991.50.4
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in block, upper left: MCE / II-'52; signed, in graphite, lower left margin: M.C. Escher; inscribed, in graphite, lower right margin: "eigendruk" (?)
Publication History
Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, listed, p.95, no. 101.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, June 28, 1985, lot 705.; sold to Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama; given to present collection, 1991.
Catalogue Raisonne
The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher, New York, 1960, no. 49
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