Fire, New Year's greeting-card 1955

1952

Dating: Exact year
Held at: National Gallery of Art
Medium: woodcut in yellow and orange, printed from two blocks, on wove paper
Dimensions: image: 13.2 x 13.2 cm (5 3/16 x 5 3/16 in.) sheet: 16.8 x 15.5 cm (6 5/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
Collection no.: 1983.109.40
Attribution: By the artist

About this artwork

Fire, New Year's greeting-card 1955 — M.C. Escher. 1952.

Medium: woodcut in yellow and orange, printed from two blocks, on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 13.2 x 13.2 cm (5 3/16 x 5 3/16 in.) sheet: 16.8 x 15.5 cm (6 5/8 x 6 1/8 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1983.109.40. Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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