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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Eight Heads
M.C. Escher
Dutch, 1898 - 1972
Eight Heads, 1922
woodcut, block printed four times
image: 32.5 x 34 cm (12 13/16 x 13 3/8 in.) sheet: 45.7 x 44.8 cm (18 x 17 5/8 in.)
Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection
All M.C. Escher works © Cordon Art-Baarn-the Netherlands. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
1973.65.2
From the Tour: M.C. Escher — Life and Work
Object 3 of 24

Exhibition History

1974
NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 137 (with incorrect accession number).
1997
M.C. Escher: A Centennial Tribute, National Gallery of Art, Washington; San Diego Museum of Art; The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, 1997-1999.
2000
"M.C. Escher", Knoxville Museum of Art, 2000.

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