Puddle, 1952

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Medium

color woodcut from three blocks

Dimensions

block: 23.9 x 32 cm (9 7/16 x 12 5/8 in.)

sheet: 29 x 41.1 cm (11 7/16 x 16 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Charlotte Loeb

Catalogue Raisonné

Bool 1981, no. 378

Accession Number

2006.132.2

Artists / Makers

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

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Inscription

upper left in block: MCE / II '52; across bottom in graphite: MC Escher voor Arthur & Lotje. Dit prentje is misscheien "gevoeliger" dan vele andere en wil daarom jihn dank mit voor jullie vriendschap mit [not deciphered] 29 XF /64 eigendruck

Provenance

Arthur and Lotje Loeb, Cambridge, MA; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Loeb, Charlotte, Estate of

Exhibition History

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.