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image of Relativity
M.C. Escher (artist)
Dutch, 1898 - 1972
Relativity, 1953
lithograph
image: 28 x 29.1 cm (11 x 11 7/16 in.) sheet: 39.1 x 40.6 cm (15 3/8 x 16 in.)
Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection
All M.C. Escher works © Cordon Art-Baarn-the Netherlands. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
1974.28.51
Not on View
From the Tour: M.C. Escher — Life and Work
Object 22 of 24

This is perhaps Escher's best-known print on the theme of relativity. It also is a fine example of Escher's focus on unusual, and often conflicting, points of view.

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