Details

Title

Edgar and Edmund Fight (From King Lear)

Artist/Maker

Oskar Kokoschka (Austrian, 1886–1980)

Date

1963

Medium

Lithograph on paper

Dimensions

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Credit

Gift of Dr. Sherman N. Leis through the Ackerman Foundation

Accession #

1979.61 N

Location

Currently not on view

Edgar and Edmund Fight Act V, Scene III Edmund, finally exposed as a traitor, calls for a trial by combat. Edgar appears masked and in armor and challenges Edmund to a duel, which Goneril watches. Edgar wounds Edmund fatally.

Image Copyright

© Fondation Oskar Kokoschka/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ProLitteris, Zurich