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M.C. Escher

Snakes, 1969

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Medium

woodcut in orange, green, and black, printed from three blocks

Dimensions

image: 49.8 x 44.1 cm (19 5/8 x 17 3/8 in.)

sheet: 55.3 x 47.1 cm (21 3/4 x 18 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bool 1981, no. 448

Accession Number

1982.90.21

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 center, in pencil: MCEscher eigendruk; lower left, in pencil: Gift copy for Mr. C.V.S. Roosevelt

Exhibition History

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

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.

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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