Aubrey Beardsley Prints
1872–1898 · English · Aestheticism
Wall art by Aubrey Beardsley, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
6 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Beardsley was born in Brighton in August 1872, worked as a clerk in a London insurance office and drew in the evenings; a visit to Burne-Jones in 1891 and the encouragement of the publisher J. M. Dent, who commissioned his illustrations to Malory's Morte d'Arthur in 1892, made him an artist at twenty. His drawings for Oscar Wilde's Salome in 1894, in black ink with no shading, only line and flat mass, and his covers for the quarterly The Yellow Book the same year made him the most notorious draughtsman in England; his poster for the Avenue Theatre of 1894, with its woman behind a spotted curtain, was the first English poster in the new manner. He was dismissed from The Yellow Book after Wilde's trial in 1895, drew for Leonard Smithers's The Savoy and illustrated Pope's Rape of the Lock. Consumptive since childhood, he died at Menton in March 1898, at twenty-five. His few colour designs, the Isolde of 1895 among them, keep the same flat shapes as his black and white.