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
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.
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