Eight Heads

1922

M.C. Escher

Artist, Dutch, 1898 - 1972

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, block printed four times

  • Credit Line

    Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection

  • Dimensions

    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.)

  • Accession

    1973.65.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bool 1981, no. 90

  • Copyright

    All M.C. Escher works © Cordon Art-Baarn-the Netherlands. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 137 (with incorrect accession number).

1984

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

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.

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.8.

Inscriptions

lower left, in pencil: MCEscher 1922; lower right, in pencil: eigen druk

Wikidata ID

Q65574011

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