Aubrey Vincent Beardsley ( ; 21 August 187216 March 1898) was an English

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and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the

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movement which also included

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and

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. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the

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and

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styles was significant despite his early death from

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. He is one of the important Modern Style figures.

Early life, education, and early career

Beardsley was born in Brighton,

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, England, on 21 August 1872 and christened on 24 October 1872. His father, Vincent Paul Beardsley (1839–1909), was the son of a

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jeweller; Vincent had no trade himself (partly owing to tuberculosis, from which his own father had died aged only 40), and relied on a private income from an inheritance that he received from his maternal grandfather, a property developer, when he was 21. Vincent's wife, Ellen Agnus Pitt (1846–1932), was the daughter of Surgeon-Major William Pitt of the Indian Army. The Pitts were a well-established and respected family in Brighton, and Beardsley's mother married a man of lesser social status than might have been expected. Soon after their wedding, Vincent was obliged to sell some of his property in order to settle a claim for his breach of promise of marriage from another woman, the widow of a clergyman, who claimed that he had promised to marry her. At the time of his birth, Beardsley's family, which included his sister Mabel who was one year older, were living in Ellen's familial home at 12 Buckingham Road. At the age of seven, Beardsley contracted tuberculosis. With the loss of Vincent Beardsley's fortune soon after his son's birth, the family settled in London in 1883, where Vincent would work first for the West India & Panama Telegraph Company, then irregularly as a clerk at breweries; they would spend the next 20 years in rented accommodation, battling poverty. Ellen took to presenting herself as the "victim of a ''mésalliance''". In 1884, Aubrey appeared in public as an "infant musical phenomenon", playing at several concerts with his sister. In January 1885, he began to attend Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School, where he spent the next four years. His first poems, drawings, and cartoons appeared in print in ''Past and Present'', the school's magazine. In 1888, he obtained a post in an architect's office and afterwards one in the Guardian Life and Fire Insurance Company. In 1891, under the advice of Sir Edward Burne-Jones and

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, he took up art as a profession. In 1892, he attended the classes at the Westminster School of Art, then under Professor Fred Brown.

Work

Beardsley travelled to Paris in 1892, where he discovered the poster art of

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and the Parisian fashion for Japanese prints. His first commission was ''

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'' by

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(1893), illustrated for the publishing house J.M. Dent and Company. In 1894, a new translation of

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's ''True History'', with illustrations by Beardsley,

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, and J. B. Clark, was privately printed in an edition of 251 copies. Beardsley had six years of creative output, which can be divided into several periods, identified by the form of his signature. In the early period, his work is mostly unsigned. During 1891 and 1892, he progressed to using his initials A.V.B. In mid-1892, the period of ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' and ''The Bon Mots'', he used a Japanese-influenced mark that became progressively more graceful, sometimes accompanied by A.B. in block capitals. Beardsley-peacockskirt

He co-founded ''

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'' with American writer Henry Harland, and for the first four editions, he served as art editor and produced the cover designs and many illustrations for the magazine. He was aligned with

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, the British counterpart of

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and

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. Most of his images are done in ink and feature large dark areas contrasted with large blank ones as well as areas of fine detail contrasted with areas with none at all. The Barge - Aubrey Beardsley

Beardsley was the most controversial artist of the

era, renowned for his dark and perverse images and grotesque erotica, which were the main themes of his later work. He satirized Victorian values regarding sex, which at the time highly valued respectability, and men's fear of female superiority, as the

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made gains in economic rights and occupational and educational opportunities by the 1880s. His illustrations were in black and white against a white background. Some of his drawings, inspired by Japanese

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artwork, featured enormous genitalia. His most famous erotic illustrations concerned themes of history and mythology; these include his illustrations for a privately printed edition of

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' ''

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'' and his drawings for

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'', which eventually premiered in Paris in 1896. Other major illustration projects included an 1896 edition of '' The Rape of the Lock'' by

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He also produced extensive illustrations for books and magazines (e.g., for a deluxe edition of Sir

's ''

'') and worked for magazines such as '' The Studio'' and '' The Savoy'', of which he was a co-founder. As a co-founder of ''The Savoy'', Beardsley was able to pursue his writing as well as illustration, and a number of his writings, including '' Under the Hill'' (a story based on the Tannhäuser legend) and "The Ballad of a Barber" appeared in the magazine. Beardsley was a

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and did some political cartoons, mirroring Wilde's irreverent wit in art. Beardsley's work reflected the

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of his era and his influence was enormous, clearly visible in the work of the French Symbolists, the Poster Art Movement of the 1890s and the work of many later-period artists such as Frank C. Papé and

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. Some alleged works of Beardsley's were published in a book titled ''Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, Selected from the Collection of Mr. H.S. Nicols''. They were later discovered to be forgeries, distinguishable by their almost pornographic erotic elements rather than Beardsley's subtler use of sexuality. Beardsley's work continued to cause controversy in Britain long after his death. During an exhibition of Beardsley's prints held at the

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in London in 1966, a private gallery in London was raided by the police for exhibiting copies of the same prints on display at the museum and the owner was charged under obscenity laws.

Personal life

Beardsley was a public as well as private eccentric. He said "I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque, I am nothing." Wilde said Beardsley had "a face like a silver hatchet, and grass green hair". Beardsley was meticulous about his attire: dove-grey suits, hats, ties, and yellow gloves. He appeared at his publisher's in a

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and court shoes. Although Beardsley was associated with the homosexual clique that included Oscar Wilde and other aesthetes, the details of his sexuality remain in question. In his ''Autobiographies,'' W.B. Yeats, who knew him well, says that he was not homosexual. Speculation about his sexuality includes rumours of an incestuous relationship with his elder sister, Mabel, who may have become pregnant by her brother and miscarried. During his entire career, Beardsley had recurrent attacks of tuberculosis. He suffered frequent lung haemorrhages and often was unable to work or leave his home. Beardsley converted to

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in March 1897. The next year, the last letter before his death was to his publisher

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and close friend Herbert Charles Pollitt:

Postmark: March 7, 1898 , Jesus is our Lord and Judge , Dear Friend, I implore you to destroy ''all'' copies of ''Lysistrata'' and bad drawings … By all that is holy, ''all'' obscene drawings. , Aubrey Beardsley , In my death agony.

Both men ignored Beardsley's wishes, and Smithers actually continued to sell reproductions as well as forgeries of Beardsley's work.

Death

In December 1896, Beardsley suffered a violent haemorrhage, leaving him in precarious health. By April 1897, a month after his conversion to Catholicism, his deteriorating health prompted a move to the French Riviera. There he died a year later, on 16 March 1898, of tuberculosis at the Cosmopolitan Hotel (now the Résidence Mont Fleuri private apartments) in Menton,

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, France, attended by his mother and sister. He was 25 years old. Following a

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in Menton Cathedral the following day, his remains were interred in the Cimetière du Trabuquet.

Media portrayals

In the 1982 ''Playhouse'' drama ''Aubrey'', written by John Selwyn Gilbert, Beardsley was portrayed by actor John Dicks. The drama concerned Beardsley's life from the time of Oscar Wilde's arrest in April 1895, which caused Beardsley to lose his position at ''The Yellow Book'', to his death from tuberculosis in 1898. The BBC documentary ''Beardsley and His Work'' was made in 1982. Beardsley is featured on the cover of

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''. The 1977 horror film '' Death Bed: The Bed That Eats'' is narrated by the entombed spirit of an unnamed artist whose work and manner of death identify him as Beardsley. In March 2020, BBC Four broadcast the hour-long documentary ''Scandal & Beauty: Mark Gatiss on Aubrey Beardsley'', presented by

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. The programme coincided with the Beardsley exhibition at

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. Beardsley's art is mentioned briefly in the 2011 version of the

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song, ''Beach Life-in-Death.''

Legacy

In 2019 the National Leather Association International established an award named after Beardsley for creators of abstract erotic art.

Gallery

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and

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'', 1894–5 File:Aubrey Beardsley - Edgar Poe 3.jpg, '' The Fall of the House of Usher'', 1894–5 File:Aubrey Beardsley - Edgar Poe 4.jpg, Illustration for '' The Masque of the Red Death'', 1894–5 File:Venus between terminal gods beardsley.jpg, ''

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Works

* Beardsley, Aubrey, Simon Wilson, and Linda Gertner Zatlin. 1998. ''Aubrey Beardsley: a centenary tribute''. Tokyo: Art Life Ltd.

Citations

General sources

* * Beardsley, Aubrey, Simon Wilson, and Linda Gertner Zatlin. 1998. ''Aubrey Beardsley: a centenary tribute''. Tokyo: Art Life Ltd. * Beerbohm, Max. 1928. 'Aubrey Beardsley' in ''A Variety of Things''. New York, Knopf. * Benkovitz, Miriam J. 1980. ''Aubrey Beardsley, an Account of his Life''. New York, N.Y.: Putnam. . * * Calloway, Stephen. 1998. ''Aubrey Beardsley''. New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams. . * Dovzhyk, Sasha. 2020. "Aubrey Beardsley in the Russian 'World of Art'". British Art Studies Issue 18. https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-18/sdovzhyk * Dowson, Ernest. 1897. ''The Pierrot of the Minute''. Restored edition with Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations, CreateSpace, 2012. Bilingual illustrated edition with French translation by Philippe Baudry, CreateSpace, 2012 * Fletcher, Ian. 1987. ''Aubrey Beardsley''. Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers. . * Reade, Brian. 1967. ''Aubrey Beardsley''. New York: Bonanza Books. * Ross, Robert 1909. ''Aubrey Beardsley''. London: John Lane. * Snodgrass, Chris. 1995. ''Aubrey Beardsley: Dandy of the Grotesque''. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. . * Symons, Arthur. 1898. ''Aubrey Beardsley''. London: At the Sign of the Unicorn. * * Weintraub, Stanley. 1967. ''Beardsley: a biography.'' New York, N.Y.: Braziller. * Zatlin, Linda G. 1997. ''Beardsley, Japonisme, and the Perversion of the Victorian Ideal''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . * Zatlin, Linda G. 1990. ''Aubrey Beardsley and Victorian Sexual Politics''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . * Zatlin, Linda G. 2007. "Aubrey Beardsley and the Shaping of Art Nouveau." ''Bound for the 1890s: Essays on Writing and Publishing in Honor of James G. Nelson''. Ed. Jonathan Allison. Buckinghamshire: Rivendale Press. * Zatlin, Linda G. "Wilde, Beardsley, and the Making of Salome." Scholars Library, 2007; originally published in ''The Journal of Victorian Culture'' 5.2 (November 2000): 341–57. * Zatlin, Linda G. 2006. "Aubrey Beardsley." ''Encyclopedia of Europe 1789–1914''. Chicago: Gale Research.

External links

The Aubrey Beardsley Society
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Aubrey Beardsley Library
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listen online
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Aubrey Beardsley Blog
with scholarly and creative contributions * * * *
Works displayed at Art Renewal Center website

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Aubrey Beardsley Letter from the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections

Article on Aubrey Beardsley in April 1895 edition of ''The Bookman'' (New York)
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