Magic Mirror

1946

M.C. Escher

Artist, Dutch, 1898 - 1972

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph

  • Credit Line

    Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.94 × 44.45 cm (11 × 17 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 40.64 × 54.61 cm (16 × 21 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1974.28.22

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bool 1981, no. 338

Artwork history & notes

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, Rochester, NY, 1975.

1984

  • "M. C. Escher: Pattern & Paradox", Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL, 1984.

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.

1990

  • Schattschneider 1990, p.301.

Inscriptions

upper left, on stone: MCE I-46; lower left, in pencil: MCEscher No. 8/36

Wikidata ID

Q65574242

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