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Fulfillment

1921

M.C. Escher

Artist, Dutch, 1898 - 1972

Medium

woodcut
Credit Line

Seymour and Iris Schwartz Collection
Accession

1981.80.6.g
Catalogue Raisonné

Bool 1981, no. 71

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Flor de Pascua

Aad P. van Stolk, M.C. Escher

1921

Rooster on the Tower

M.C. Escher

1921

Spook

M.C. Escher

1921

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

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, as The Sphere from Flor de Pascua.

2000

"M.C. Escher", Knoxville Museum of Art, 2000.

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.

Wikidata ID

Q74037922

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