Spider in the Garden (design for a ceramic plate)
1920
Artist, Dutch, 1898 - 1972
Artwork overview
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Medium
watercolor and graphite on light brown handmade paper
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Credit Line
Gift of Michael Schiffman in honor of Rock J. Walker/Walker Fine Art
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Dimensions
sheet: 25.9 × 24.5 cm (10 3/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
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Accession
2021.98.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist; to the M. C. Escher Foundation, Baarn, The Netherlands, 1968–72; J.W. Vermeulen Collection (?); purchased by Mashaharu Kohga Collection, Japan; purchased by Michael Sachs, CT; purchased by Rock J. Walker, New York and San Francisco; purchased by Michael Louis Schiffman, Los Angeles, October 2008; gift to NGA, 2021
Associated Names
Bibliography
1980
M. C. Escher Archive: Drawings, 106 microfiche, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague and Interdocumentation Company, Zug, Switzerland, 1980: no. 1259.
1986
Kohga, Masaharu. Message from M. C. Escher, vols. I-IV. Tokyo, 1986: no. K70 (vol. II, page 105), illustrated upside down.
Inscriptions
lower right verso in graphite, by later hand: T261c[c in superscript]-X-69; Not signed. Not dated.
Markings
None.
Watermarks
None.