Details

Title

Edmund (From Book 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 B

On View

Currently not on view

Edmund Act I, Scene II: “This is the excellent foppery of the world” Edmund is the treacherous illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester, Lear’s faithful follower. He will betray all and sundry in his quest for power.

Image Copyright

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

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