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M.C. Escher

The Fall of Man, 1927

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Medium

woodcut

Dimensions

image: 37.47 × 27.62 cm (14 3/4 × 10 7/8 in.)

sheet: 46.67 × 33.66 cm (18 3/8 × 13 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bool 1981, no. 114

Accession Number

1973.65.12

Artists / Makers

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

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Copyright

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

Inscription

lower right, in block: 3-'27 / MCE / GEN.3:6; lower left, in pencil: MCEscher

Exhibition History

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

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.

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