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Aubrey Beardsley was the world’s undisputed master of black and white. He not only strongly influenced his contemporaries, but even to-day there are dozens of artists whose work shows that they are ...
Few skewered Victorian Britain’s social mores as relentlessly as Aubrey Beardsley. None did so more salaciously, as an exhibition at America’s oldest club for bibliophiles proves. In the confines of ...
In his brief life, the controversial artist created over a thousand illustrations, many of them too daring for his time, but he achieved what he initially set out to do. Frederick Henry Evans, from ...
Celebrated — and at times reviled — for his scalpel-sharp visions of the exotic and the morbid, Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) influenced his cultural milieu deeply: everything from Art Nouveau to the ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
What do you think of when you hear the word “decadent”? Roman senators gorging on dormice. Concubines cat-fighting in the Forbidden City. Harvey Weinstein, in a former life, opening the door to his ...
There can’t be many artists from the 1890s whose work is still so shocking that a gallery will not, even now, display their work. But Aubrey Beardsley is one. “We have to be careful – we have a family ...
Two illustrations by artist Aubrey Beardsley have sold for $355,500 (£240,000) at auction, after being discovered in a pensioner's bathroom. An auctioneer, who had been carrying out a routine ...