Details

Title

Anger (La Colère), from the Deadly Sins (Les Péchés Capitaux) series

Artist/Maker

James Ensor (Belgian, 1860–1949)

Date

1904

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

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Credit

Purchase with funds from the Lawrence and Alfred Fox Foundation for the Ralph K. Uhry Collection

Accession #

72.8 C

On View

Currently not on view

Ensor depicts the dire results of unchecked anger: brutal battles to the death between men and women. The figure of Death overhead seems to fan the fires of murderous passions below. The space is littered with victims and spattered with blood.