Contrast (Order and Chaos)

1950

M.C. Escher

Artist, Dutch, 1898 - 1972

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Julius S. Piver

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 36.9 x 37.4 cm (14 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.31.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bool 1981, no. 366

  • Copyright

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

Artwork history & notes

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 left in plate: II-'50 / MCE; in artist's hand, lower left below image in graphite: M.C.Escher No5/2gII; in later hand, lower right in graphite: ORDER & CHAOS

Wikidata ID

Q74046298

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