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Fine Art Sculpture & Modern Design Session 1

Sat, Dec 11, 2021 11:00AM EST
Lot 212

Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) UK, Block Print

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500

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Art Nouveau line block print, initialed in the plate: A.B. Drawing showing an elaborately dressed, but bare chested, woman with a feathered turban. She has a monkey on a leash. The monkey wears a suit and holds a hat. Tasselled curtains and a heavily ornamented flower stand are in the background. History: The last plate in the series 'Six Drawings illustrating Théophile Gautier's Romance Mademoiselle de Maupin by Aubrey Beardsley', published by Leonard Smithers, London 1898. Only twenty-five years old at his death, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley had a significant impact on art and illustration despite his short career. Born in Brighton, England, he lived in London most of his life, and died in Paris from tuberculosis, which had plagued him since childhood. His work influenced both the Art Nouveau movement the anti-Victorian Aesthetic movement popularized by the writings of Oscar Wilde and Algernon Swinburne and the art of James McNeill Whistler and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Image height: 193mm Image width: 164mm Sheet height: 382mm Sheet width: 284mm Dimensions from catalogue: 8 3/8 x 7 3/8 inches (21.2 x 18.8 cm)

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