Symmetry No. 131, 1967

Not on View

Medium

ink and correction fluid over incised lines and graphite on light blue graph paper

Dimensions

sheet: 30.3 × 22.6 cm (11 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Michael Schiffman in honor of Rock J. Walker/Walker Fine Art

Accession Number

2021.98.13

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

upper center in black ball-point pen: 131 [circled]; lower left in black ball-point pen: Systeem vervarst aan VIII [VIII circled] / 2ie 42 en 43; lower right in black ball-point pen: Baarn, VII -'67; lower right verso in graphite, by later hand: T358-x-1972

Marks and Labels

None.

Provenance

The artist; to the M. C. Escher Foundation, Baarn, The Netherlands, 1968–72; purchased by Michael Sachs, CT, c. 1980; 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

Schiffman, Michael Louis Dr.
Walker, Rock J.

Bibliography

1980: M. C. Escher Archive: Drawings, 106 microfiche, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague and Interdocumentation Company, Zug, Switzerland, 1980: no. 793.

1990: Schattschneider, Doris. Visions of Symmetry: Notebooks, Periodic Drawings, and Related Work of M. C. Escher. New York, 1990: no. 131, illustrated page 224.