Balcony

1945

M.C. Escher

Associated Names
M.C. Escher

Artist, Dutch, 1898 - 1972

This print shows a collection of tiered buildings arranged in a pyramid shape. The buildings have flat roofs, arched doorways, square windows, and balconies. In the center, one balcony has been enlarged, and the space around it seems to balloon outward in a circle. The buildings around this central balcony are all warped and curved to create this effect. At the bottom of the collection of buildings is a line of rocks at the edge of a body of water, and the top shows a gray sky filled with small white dots.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph

  • Credit Line

    Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 29.6 x 23.5 cm (11 5/8 x 9 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 38.5 x 31.9 cm (15 3/16 x 12 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1974.28.19

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bool 1981, no. 334

  • Copyright

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

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1995

  • M.C. Escher: Landscape to Mindscape, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1995-1996, p.12, no.8.

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

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

Q65574239

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