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James Ensor — The Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice
James Ensor

The Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice

1904

Greed takes monstrous form in this later addition to the series, showing Ensor's continued development of his allegorical visual language.

Medium
etching

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James Ensor, The Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, 1904

Greed takes monstrous form in this later addition to the series, showing Ensor's continued development of his allegorical visual language.

Medium
etching
Year
1904
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Monochrome, 19th Century, Etching, Macabre, Dark Tones, Allegory, Symbolism, Belgian, Figurative, Satirical

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Collected by

Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, Sebastián Naranjo