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Maurits Cornelis Escher, Dutch, 1898 - 1972

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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

Print

Research Area

Print

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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