Lasner 107 Ray 318 Reade, Aubrey Beardsley, pp.360-361. Aubrey Beardsley’s ‘obscene’ drawings for Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, and ‘Lysistrata’ (NSFW) ‘Salome. Find great deals on Lysistrata character in a comedy by Aristophanes, 1896 Print Giclee Print by Aubrey Beardsley at, with fast shipping. The absence of backgrounds, as in the Salome illustrations, makes the designs of closed outlines and bold dots and rare decorated blacks, all the more dramatic' (Reade). 'Beardsley had studied Greek vase painting in 1894 at the British Museum, and the Lysistrata drawings reflect something of the Greek vase spirit, including the bawdiness, without perhaps much of the spontaneity of Greek draughtsmanship. Beardsley remarked in a letter to Raffalovich: 'I think they are in a way the best things I have ever done'. (Light soiling in some margins.) Original paper-backed blue paper-covered boards, printed label on upper side, housed in a custom-made blue cloth clamshell case (extremities rubbed, some soiling).įIRST EDITION OF BEARDSLEY'S RAREST BOOK, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES this one numbered 4.
8 plates on japan vellum by Aubrey Beardsley. 1929 (printed and published) Aubrey Beardsley's distinctive black and white drawings for Oscar Wilde's Salom, published in 1894, brought him an extraordinary notoriety whilst still in his early twenties. BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-98, illustrator) - ARISTOPHANES (c.448-380 BC). Lysistrata shielding her Coynte Print ca.
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