Description:
Allegorical figure of Death dressed in black with a skull-like face and blood-stained hands stands over a recumbent female figure who is partly wrapped in fabric. Death holds a coat-hook shaped wire and appears to stab the figure; red blood drips from the wire and pools around the woman.

Tags:
prints; abstract; deaths; skulls; blood; red

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