Metamorphosis I, 1937

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Medium

woodcut, printed on two sheets

Dimensions

image: 19.4 x 90.8 cm (7 5/8 x 35 3/4 in.)

sheet: 29.3 x 100.6 cm (11 9/16 x 39 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Bool 1981, no. 298

Accession Number

1974.28.6

Artists / Makers

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

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Copyright

Inscription

lower right, in block: V-'37 MCE; lower left, in pencil: MC Escher To Mr. C.V.S. Roosevelt, with kind regards, this almost 30 years old copy. Baam. March 20, 1907.

Exhibition History

1974: "MC Escher Prints", National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, July 25 - December 30, 1974.

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.

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.19.