Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972), also known as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist. He is famous for his often mathematics-inspired mezzotints, lithographs, and woodcuts. His works include tessellations, explorations of infinity, architecture, and impossible constructions. Learn more »
Paintings by M.C. Escher in Chronological Order
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| Bookplate Bastiaan Kist, 1916 | Chrysanthemum, 1916 | Escher’s Father, 1916 |
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| Head of a Child, 1916 | Baby, 1917 | Mascot, 1917 |
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| Portrait of a Man, 1917 | Railway Bridge, Oosterbeek, 1917 | Self Portrait II, 1917 |
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| Skull, 1917 | Smoking Warning, 1917 | Young Thrush, 1917 |
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| Fiet van Stolk, 1918 | Self Portrait, 1918 | Sunflowers, 1918 |
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| The Rag Pickers, 1918 | Life Force, 1919 | Parrot, 1919 |
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| Portrait of a Bearded Man, 1919 | Sea Shells, 1919 | Seated Man with Cat on His Lap, 1919 |
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| Self Portrait, 1919 | Skull, 1919 | The Borger Oak, 1919 |
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| Twon Tree, 1919 | White Cat I, 1919 | White Cat II, 1919 |
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| Father with Magnifying Glass, 1920 | Flower, 1920 | In Mesquitas Classroom, 1920 |
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| Portrait of a Man, 1920 | Poster, 1920 | Roosje Ingen Housz, 120 |
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| Seated Old Woman, 1920 | Self Portrait in a Chair, 1920 | Flor de Pascua – Beautiful, 1921 |
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| Flor de Pascua – Fulfillment, 1921 | Flor de Pascua – La Pensee, 1921 | Flor de Pascua – The Scapegoat, 1921 |
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| Flor de Pascua – The Weathercock, 1921 | Flor de Pascua – Theosophy, 1921 | Flor de Pascua – Untitled, 1921 |
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| Flor de Pascua – Whore’s Superstition, 1921 | Hand with Fir Cone, 1921 | Perfume, 1921 |
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| Plane Filling Motif with Human Figures, 1921 | The Sphere, 1921 | Bookplate B.G. Escher, 1922 |
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| Eight Heads, 1922 | Mural Mosaic in The Alhambra, 1922 | San Gimignano, 1922 |
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| St. Francis preaching to the Birds, 1922 | The Sea at the Mouth of the Ebro, 1922 | Dolphins, 1923 |
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| Palm Tree, YEAR | Ravello I, YEAR | Ravello II, YEAR |
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| Ravello III, 1923 | San Gimignano, 1923 | Self-Portrait, 1923 |
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| Saint Vincent Martyr, 1925 | The 1st Day of the Creation, 1925 | The 2nd Day of the Creation, 1925 |
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| Vitorchiano nel Cimino, 1925 | Birds, 1926 | The 3rd Day of the Creation, 1926 |
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| The 4th Day of the Creation, 1926 | The 5th Day of the Creation, 1926 | The 6th Day of the Creation, 1926 |
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| Procession in Crypt, 1927 | Rome and the Griffin of Borgheses, 1927 | Calanques de Piana, 1928 |
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| Castle in the Air, 1928 | Citadel of Calvi Corsica, 1928 | Citadel of Calvi Corsica, 1928 |
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| Kairouan Tunisia, 1929 | Alfedena Abruzzi, 1929 | Cimino Barbarano, 1929 |
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| Corsica Corte, 1929 | Infant Arthur, 1929 | Goriano Sicoli, 1929 |
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| The Bridge, 1930 | Atrani, Coast of Amalfi, 1931 | Cloister near Rocca Imperiale, Calabria, 1931 |
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| Coast of Amalfi, 1931 | Covered Alley in Atrani, 1931 | Emblemata – Anvil, 1931 |
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| Emblemata – Balance, 1931 | Emblemata – Beehive, 1931 | Emblemata – Buoy, 1931 |
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| Emblemata – Butterfly, 1931 | Emblemata – Cactus, 1931 | Emblemata – Candle Flame, 1931 |
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| Emblemata – Dice, 1931 | Emblemata – Flint, 1931 | Emblemata – Kite, 1931 |
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| Emblemata – Lute, 1931 | Emblemata – Retreat, 1931 | Emblemata – Signpost, 1931 |
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| Emblemata – Squirrel, 1931 | Emblemata – Steamroller, 1931 | Emblemata – Sundial, 1931 |
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| Emblemata – Toadstool, 1931 | Emblemata – Vase, 1931 | Emblemata – Well, 1931 |
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| Farmhouse, Ravello, 1931 | Farmhouse, Ravello colour, 1931 | Flowers, 1931 |
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| Frog, 1931 | Initial A, 1931 | Initial D, 1931 |
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| Initial D, 1931 | Initial O, 1931 | Initial S, 1931 |
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| Initial T, 1931 | Initial V, 1931 | Initial V, 1931 |
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| Padlock, 1931 | Palm Tree, 1931 | Ravello and the Coast of Amalfi, 1931 |
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| Scholastica, 1931 | Scholastica (Bad Dream), 1931 | Scholastica (cover), 1931 |
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| Scholastica (Flying Witch), 1931 | Scholastica (The Bridge), 1931 | Scholastica Illustration, 1931 |
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| Scholastica Illustration, 1931 | Second title-page, 1931 | Tropea, Calabria, 1931 |
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| View of Atrani, 1931 | Vignette, 1931 | Wateringcan, 1931 |
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| Weather Vane, 1931 | Atrani, Coast of Amalfi, 1932 | Italian Town, 1932 |
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| Lion of The Fountain in The Piazza al Ravello, 1932 | Mumified Priests in Gangi, 1932 | Porta Maria Dell’ Ospidale, 1932 |
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| San Cosimo, Ravello, 1932 | San Michele Dei Frisone, Rome, 1932 | Scholastica Illustration, 1932 |
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| Temple of Segeste, Sicily, 1932 | The Hamlet of Turello, Southern Italy, 1932 | Caltavuturo in The Madonie Mountains, Sicily, 1933 |
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| Cave Dwellings (near Sperlinga), Sicily, 1933 | Cloister of Monreale, Sicily, 1933 | Corte, Corsica, 1933 |
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| Fireworks, 1933 | Lava Flow from Etna, 1933 | Palm, 1933 |
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| Pineta of Calvi Corsica, 1933 | Candle Mirror, 1934 | Nocturnal Rome, 1934 |
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| Nocturnal Rome, 1934 | Nocturnal Rome, 1934 | Nocturnal Rome, 1934 |
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| Nocturnal Rome, 1934 | Nocturnal Rome, 1934 | Nocturnal Rome, Basilica of Constantine, 1934 |
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| Nocturnal Rome, Castel Sant’ Angelo, 1934 | Nocturnal Rome, Colonade of St. Peter’s, 1934 | Nocturnal Rome, Colosseum, 1934 |
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| Nocturnal Rome, Santa Maria del Popolo, 1934 | Nonza, Corsica, 1934 | Old Olive Tree, Corsica, 1934 |
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| Still Life with Spherical Mirror, YEAR | Dream, YEAR | Grasshopper, YEAR |
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| Hand with Reflecting Sphere, 1935 | Hell, copy after Hiernonymus Bosch, 1935 | Inside St. Peter’s, Rome, 1935 |
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| Portrait of G.A. Escher, 1935 | Scarabs, 1935 | Sengela, Malta, 1935 |
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| House in The Lava near Nunziata, 1936 | Prickly Flower, 1936 | Snow, 1936 |
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| Systematic Study, 1936 | Development I, 1937 | Porthole, 1937 |
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| Still Life and Street, 1937 | Bird Fish, 1938 | Cycle, 1938 |
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| Day and Night, 1938 | Sky and Water I, 1938 | Sky and Water II, 1938 |
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| Two Birds, 1938 | Delft, 1939 | Development II, 1939 |
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| Development III, 1939 | Metamorphosis II, 1939 | Metamorphosis II excerpt 1, 1939 |
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| Metamorphosis II excerpt 2, 1939 | Metamorphosis II excerpt 3, 1939 | Metamorphosis II excerpt 4, 1939 |
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| Metamorphosis II excerpt 5, 1939 | Metamorphosis II excerpt 6, 1939 | Metamorphosis II excerpt 7, 1939 |
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| Bookplate, Dr. P.H.M. Travaglino, 1940 | Fish, 1940 | Plane Filling Motif with Reptiles, 1941 |
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| Fish, 1942 | Lizard, 1942 | Verbum, 1942 |
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| Ant, 1943 | Blowball I, 1943 | Blowball II, 1943 |
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| Reptiles Colour, 1943 | Self-Portrait II, 1943 | Still Life, 1943 |
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| Doric Columns, 1945 | Temporary Academy Diploma , 1945 | Three Spheres I, 1945 |
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| Eye, 1946 | Eye Colour, 1946 | Gallery, 1946 |
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| Horseman, 1946 | Horsemen, 1946 | Magic Mirror, 1946 |
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| Mumified Frog, 1946 | New Year’s Greeting Card, 1946 | Three Spheres II, 1946 |
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| High and Low, 1947 | Other World, 1947 | Synthesis, 1947 |
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| Drawing Hands, 1948 | Stars, 1948 | Study for Stars, 1948 |
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| Twelve Birds, 1948 | Double Planetoid, 1949 | Double Planetoid Colour, 1949 |
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| Fish and Frogs, 1949 | New Year’s Greeting Card, 1949 | Plane Filling Motif with Birds, 1949 |
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| Regular Division of The Plane with Birds, 1949 | Butterflies, 1950 | Circle Limit with Butterflies, 1950 |
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| Contrast (Order and Chaos), 1950 | Les Eyzies France, 1950 | Rippled Surface Colour, 1950 |
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| Spherical Self Portrait, 1950 | Tapestry, 1950 | Curl Up, 1951 |
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| House of Stairs, 1951 | Mosaic I, 1951 | Unicorns, 1951 |
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| Predestination, 1951 | Prelim Drawing Ceiling Decoration for Philips, 1951 | Gravitation, 1952 |
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| 4 Graphic Artists, 1952 | The four elements – Earth, 1952 | The four elements – Air, 1952 |
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| The four elements – Fire, 1952 | The four elements – Water, 1952 | Puddle, 1952 |
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| Two Intersecting Planes, 1952 | Two Intersecting Planes Colour, 1952 | Concentric Rinds Colour, 1953 |
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| Cubic space division, 1953 | A donkey, 1953 | Spirals, 1953 |
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| Bookplate A.R.A. Wertheim, 1954 | 7 Black and 6 White Fishes, 1954 | Tetrahedral Planetoid, 1954 |
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| Three Intersecting Planes, 1954 | Three Intersecting Planes Colour, 1954 | Convex and Concave, 1955 |
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| Depth, 1955 | Liberation, 1955 | Rind, 1955 |
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| Three Worlds, 1955 | Bond of Union, 1956 | Division, 1956 |
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| Circular Fish, 1956 | Print Gallery, 1956 | Smaller & Smaller, 1956 |
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| Smaller & Smaller Colour, 1956 | Swans, 1956 | Cube with Magic Ribbons, 1957 |
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| Mosaic II, 1957 | Regular Division of The Plane I, 1957 | Regular Division of The Plane III, 1957 |
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| Regular Division of The Plane IV, 1957 | Regular Division of the Plane kakemono, 1957 | Regular Division of The Plane V, 1957 |
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| Regular Division of The Plane VI, 1957 | Whirlpools, 1957 | Belvedere, 1958 |
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| Polyhedron with Flowers, 1958 | Sphere Spirals, 1958 | Sphere Surface with Fishes, 1958 |
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| Sphere Surface with Fishes Colour, 1958 | Circle Limit III, 1959 | Fishes and Scales, 1959 |
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| Flat Worms, 1959 | Ascending & Descending, 1960 | Circle Limit IV, 1960 |
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| Flower, 1961 | Four Regular Solids, 1961 | Merry Christmas & Happy New Year, 1961 |
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| Moebius Strip I, YEAR | Woods near Menton, YEAR | Fishes in Waves, YEAR |
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| Moebius Strip II, 1964 | Square Limit, 1964 | Square Limit Colour, 1964 |
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| Knots Colour, 1965 | Knot, 1966 | Path of Life III, 1966 |
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| Metamorphosis III, 1967-1968 | Metamorphosis III, 1967-1968 | Metamorphosis III, 1967-1968 |
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| Metamorphosis III excerpt 1, 1967-1968 | Metamorphosis III excerpt 2, 1967-1968 | Metamorphosis III excerpt 3, 1967-1968 |
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| Metamorphosis III excerpt 4, 1967-1968 | Metamorphosis III excerpt 5, 1967-1968 | Metamorphosis III excerpt 6, 1967-1968 |
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| Metamorphosis III excerpt 7, 1967-1968 | Metamorphosis III excerpt 8, 1967-1968 | Snakes, 1969 |
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| Balcony | Birds in Space | Castrovalva |
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| Circle Limit IV | Concentric Rinds | Crab Canon |
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| Dogs | Dragon | Dwarves |
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| Encounter | Fish | Fish & Boat |
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| Fluorescent Sea | Flying Fish | Gecko |
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| Horseman | Interlaced Hexagon | Lizard |
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| Lizard 2 | Lizards | Relativity lattice |
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| Reptiles | Rippled Surface | Scheme |
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| Shells and Starfish | Symmetry Drawing | Symmetry Watercolor 106 Bird |
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| Symmetry Watercolor 55 Fish | Symmetry Watercolor 70 Butterfly | Symmetry Watercolor 94 Fish |
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| Tower of Babel | Verblife Tin | Waterfall |