Details

Title

Goneril and Edmund (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 J

On View

Currently not on view

Goneril and Edmund Act IV, Scene II: “Decline your head, this kiss, if it durst speak” Goneril discovers that she finds Edmund more attractive than her husband, Albany, and makes overtures to him. She asks him to kill her husband and take her as his wife.

Image Copyright

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

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