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M.C. Escher

Reptiles, 1943

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Medium

lithograph

Dimensions

image: 33.4 x 38.7 cm (13 1/8 x 15 1/4 in.)

sheet: 41.9 x 48 cm (16 1/2 x 18 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bool 1981, no. 327, State i/ii

Accession Number

1974.28.15

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

lower left, in pencil: 1st staat. MCEscher

Exhibition History

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

1975: "By Design: Curious Deceptions in Art and Play", Xerox Square Exhibit Center, 1975.

1995: M.C. Escher: Landscape to Mindscape, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1995-1996, frontispiece.

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.

Bibliography

1978: Schattschneider, Doris and Wallace Walker. M.C. Escher: Kaleidocycles. Norfolk, 1978: 6, fig. 3.

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.

1987: Schattschneider 1987, p.26.

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