ANONYMOUS
Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley
£2,250
n.p. . 1898.
Pen and ink portrait of Aubrey Beardsley signed "T.B.B. '98". Image measures 117x77mm, on card (187x142mm), inside a border beneath which is inscribed "Aubrey Beardsley. Artist, died 1898, aged 24". The image is based on a self-portrait done by Beardsley in 1896 and shows him, in profile, in the form of a bust, in white against a black background. Some foxing to the margins and, lightly, in a few places on the portrait but overall a very good portrait which, in a few simple lines, captures the ethereal delicacy of one of the strangest and most influential talents of fin de siècle Britain.
Pen and ink portrait of Aubrey Beardsley signed "T.B.B. '98". Image measures 117x77mm, on card (187x142mm), inside a border beneath which is inscribed "Aubrey Beardsley. Artist, died 1898, aged 24". The image is based on a self-portrait done by Beardsley in 1896 and shows him, in profile, in the form of a bust, in white against a black background. Some foxing to the margins and, lightly, in a few places on the portrait but overall a very good portrait which, in a few simple lines, captures the ethereal delicacy of one of the strangest and most influential talents of fin de siècle Britain.
