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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