Today marks 150 years since the birth of Aubrey Beardsley, one of the most celebrated and controversial book illustrators of the Art Nouveau era 🎈 Read more on the artistic radical here ⬇️
presents a vast selection of Beardsley's monochrome works, most of which are taken from a collection that belonged to pornographer Leonard Smithers, including illustration proofs for Oscar Wilde's 1891 play Salome and the gloriously grotesque Lysistrata by Aristophanes.
A rare opportunity to see one of Beardsley's early sketches in a letter sent to a school friend in 1892 — a stick-man representing himself, striding up the dark side of a mountain, on the other side of which is the sunny destination 'Art'.
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