Aubrey Beardsley: Artist and Aesthete

Small display at the National Portrait Gallery of three photographs looking at Aubrey Beardsley.

Beardsley was a notorious artist of the 1890s and the famous picture of him by Frederick Evans was here of his head in profile held in long languid hands.  The commentary said that Evans described Beardsley as a gargoyle!

I was interested in a later picture of Beardsley in Menton where he went for his health shortly before he died. It shows him an Vuillard like room with highly patterned wall paper and a crucifix on the wall showing his conversion top Catholicism earlier that year.

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