Puddle

1952

M.C. Escher

Associated Names
M.C. Escher

Artist, Dutch, 1898 - 1972

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut from three blocks

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Charlotte Loeb

  • Dimensions

    block: 23.9 x 32 cm (9 7/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 29 x 41.1 cm (11 7/16 x 16 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2006.132.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bool 1981, no. 378

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Arthur and Lotje Loeb, Cambridge, MA; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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.

Inscriptions

upper left in block: MCE / II '52; across bottom in graphite: MC Escher voor Arthur & Lotje. Dit prentje is misscheien "gevoeliger" dan vele andere en wil daarom jihn dank mit voor jullie vriendschap mit [not deciphered] 29 XF /64 eigendruck

Wikidata ID

Q76348023

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