The Fall of Man

1927

M.C. Escher

Artist, Dutch, 1898 - 1972

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut

  • Credit Line

    Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 37.47 × 27.62 cm (14 3/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 46.67 × 33.66 cm (18 3/8 × 13 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1973.65.12

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bool 1981, no. 114

  • Copyright

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

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1974

  • "M. C. Escher", National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1974.

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.

Inscriptions

lower right, in block: 3-'27 / MCE / GEN.3:6; lower left, in pencil: MCEscher

Wikidata ID

Q65574062

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