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Percy John Delf Smith — Dance of Death: Death Refuses
Percy John Delf Smith

Dance of Death: Death Refuses

1919

Part of a haunting series exploring humanity's relationship with mortality, the etching depicts death as an autonomous force that cannot be bargained with or avoided.

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etching

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Percy John Delf Smith, Dance of Death: Death Refuses, 1919

Part of a haunting series exploring humanity's relationship with mortality, the etching depicts death as an autonomous force that cannot be bargained with or avoided.

Medium
etching
Year
1919
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Dark, Monochrome, 20th Century, Art Deco, Symbolic, Figure, Etching, Death, Allegorical, British

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