M. C. Escher - Selected Works

Selected Works

• Trees, ink (1920)
• St. Bavo's, Haarlem, ink (1920)
• Flor de Pascua (The Easter Flower), woodcut/book illustrations (1921)
• Eight Heads, woodcut (1922)
• Dolphins also known as Dolphins in Phosphorescent Sea, woodcut (1923)
• Tower of Babel, woodcut (1928)
• Street in Scanno, Abruzzi, lithograph (1930)
• Castrovalva, lithograph (1930)
• The Bridge, lithograph (1930)
• Palizzi, Calabria, woodcut (1930)
• Pentedattilo, Calabria, lithograph (1930)
• Atrani, Coast of Amalfi, lithograph (1931)
• Ravello and the Coast of Amalfi, lithograph (1931)
• Covered Alley in Atrani, Coast of Amalfi, wood engraving (1931)
• Phosphorescent Sea, lithograph (1933)
• Still Life with Spherical Mirror, lithograph (1934)
• Hand with Reflecting Sphere also known as Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror, lithograph (1935)
• Inside St. Peter's, wood engraving (1935)
• Portrait of G.A. Escher, lithograph (1935)
• “Hell”, lithograph, (copied from a painting by Hieronymus Bosch) (1935)
• Regular Division of the Plane, series of drawings that continued until the 1960s (1936)
• Still Life and Street (his first impossible reality), woodcut (1937)
• Metamorphosis I, woodcut (1937)
• Day and Night, woodcut (1938)
• Cycle, lithograph (1938)
• Sky and Water I, woodcut (1938)
• Sky and Water II, lithograph (1938)
• Metamorphosis II, woodcut (1939–1940)
• Verbum (Earth, Sky and Water), lithograph (1942)
• Reptiles, lithograph (1943)
• Ant, lithograph (1943)
• Encounter, lithograph (1944)
• Doric Columns, wood engraving (1945)
• Three Spheres I, wood engraving (1945)
• Magic Mirror, lithograph (1946)
• Three Spheres II, lithograph (1946)
• Another World Mezzotint also known as Other World Gallery, mezzotint (1946)
• Eye, mezzotint (1946)
• Another World also known as Other World, wood engraving and woodcut (1947)
• Crystal, mezzotint (1947)
• Up and Down also known as High and Low, lithograph (1947)
• Drawing Hands, lithograph (1948)
• Dewdrop, mezzotint (1948)
• Stars, wood engraving (1948)
• Double Planetoid, wood engraving (1949)
• Order and Chaos (Contrast), lithograph (1950)
• Rippled Surface, woodcut and linoleum cut (1950)
• Curl-up, lithograph (1951)
• House of Stairs, lithograph (1951)
• House of Stairs II, lithograph (1951)
• Puddle, woodcut (1952)
• Gravitation, (1952)
• Dragon, woodcut lithograph and watercolor (1952)
• Cubic Space Division, lithograph (1952)
• Relativity, lithograph (1953)
• Tetrahedral Planetoid, woodcut (1954)
• Compass Rose (Order and Chaos II), lithograph (1955)
• Convex and Concave, lithograph (1955)
• Three Worlds, lithograph (1955)
• Print Gallery, lithograph (1956)
• Mosaic II, lithograph (1957)
• Cube with Magic Ribbons, lithograph (1957)
• Belvedere, lithograph (1958)
• Sphere Spirals, woodcut (1958)
• Ascending and Descending, lithograph (1960)
• Waterfall, lithograph (1961)
• Möbius Strip II (Red Ants) woodcut (1963)
• Knot, pencil and crayon (1966)
• Metamorphosis III, woodcut (1967–1968)
• Snakes, woodcut (1969)