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M.C. Escher

Magic Mirror, 1946

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Medium

lithograph

Dimensions

image: 27.94 × 44.45 cm (11 × 17 1/2 in.)

sheet: 40.64 × 54.61 cm (16 × 21 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bool 1981, no. 338

Accession Number

1974.28.22

Artists / Makers

M.C. Escher (artist) Dutch, 1898 - 1972

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Inscription

upper left, on stone: MCE I-46; lower left, in pencil: MCEscher No. 8/36

Exhibition History

1974: "M. C. Escher Prints", National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1974.

1975: "By Design: Curious Deceptions in Art and Play", Xerox Square Exhibit Center, Rochester, NY, 1975.

1984: "M. C. Escher: Pattern & Paradox", Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL, 1984.

2015: The Worlds of M.C. Escher: Nature, Science, and Imagination, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 2015.

Bibliography

1981: Bool, F.H. et al. M.C. Escher: His Life and Complete Graphic Work. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1981; English-language edition, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982.

1990: Schattschneider 1990, p.301.

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