Art, literature & historyTetrahedral Planetoid
1954
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- woodcut in yellow-brown and black, printed from two blocks
- Dimensions
- image: 42.9 x 43.1 cm (16 7/8 x 16 15/16 in.) sheet: 50.3 x 49.2 cm (19 13/16 x 19 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1974.28.53
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Tetrahedral Planetoid — M.C. Escher. 1954.
Medium: woodcut in yellow-brown and black, printed from two blocks.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 42.9 x 43.1 cm (16 7/8 x 16 15/16 in.) sheet: 50.3 x 49.2 cm (19 13/16 x 19 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1974.28.53. 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.