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AUBREY VINCENT BEARDSLEY (1872-1898)

Lot 76
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Lot 76 | AUBREY VINCENT BEARDSLEY (1872-1898)
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£ 20 000 – 30 000
AUBREY VINCENT BEARDSLEY (1872-1898)
Design for The Yellow Book, vol. 1. Design for the back cover
pen and black ink, heightened with touches of bodycolour on paper
10 1/8 x 8 5/8 in. (25.5 x 22 cm.)




Provenance

John Lane (1854-1925), bequeathed to,
Annie Lane (1854-1927); Anderson Galleries, New York, 22 November 1926, lot 8, where purchased by,
Jerome Kern (1885-1945), and then by descent to,
Elizabeth 'Betty' Kern Miller (1913-1996) (†); Sotheby's, New York, 4 December 1996, lot 20, (to Maggs Brothers),
with Maggs Brothers, London, where acquired by the late Barry Humphries.



Literature

Yellow Book, London, 1894-5, volumes I-V, back cover.
Westminster Gazette, To-Night's Entertainments, London, 14 March 1894, p. 7.
E. Nesbit, A Pomander of Verse, London, 1895, p. 84.
A. Vallance, 'Iconography', A book of Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, London, 1897, p. 206.
H. Harland, Academy, Aubrey Beardsley, 10 December 1898, pp. 437-8.
Speaker, Beardsley's Early Work, 29 April 1899, no. 46, illustrated.
A. Vallance, 'List of Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley' [revised], in R. Ross, Aubrey Beardsley, London, 1909, no. 89.III, where listed as Design on under side of cover).
A. Michaelson [A. Raffalovich], 'Aubrey Beardsley', Blackfriars, 9 October 1928, pp. 609-10.
A. E. Gallatin, Aubrey Beardsley: Catalogue of Drawings and Bibliography, New York, 1945, no. 894.
W. Macqueen-Pope, Carriages at Eleven, London, 1947, p. 213.
B. Reade, Aubrey Beardsley, London, 1967, p. 344, no. 344, pl. 346, illustrated.
B. J. Elliott, 'Covent Garden Follies: Beardsley's Masquerade Images of Poseurs and Voyeurs', Oxford Art Journal, vol. 9.1, 1986, pp. 40-1, 43-4.
G. Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec. The Complete Graphic Works. A Catalogue Raisonné. The Gerstenberg Collection, London, 1986, no. 8.
J. Stokes, In the Nineties, Chicago, 1989, pp. 53-93.
M. Stetz and M. Samuels Lasner, England in the 1890's: Literary Publishing at the Bodley Head, Washington DC, 1990, no. 39.
K. Beckson, London in the 1890s, A Cultural History, New York, 1992, pp. 110-27.
M. Samuels Lasner, A Selective Checklist of the Published Work of Aubrey Beardsley, Boston, 1995, no. 65.
D. Kift [translated by R. Kift], The Victorian Music Hall, Culture, Class and Conflict, Cambridge, 1996, nos. 162-4.
L. G. Zatlin, Aubrey Beardsley. A catalogue raisonné, New Haven and London, 2016, no. 886, p. 74, illustrated.
S. Calloway and C. Corbeau-Parsons (eds.), Aubrey Beardsley, London, 2020, no. 124, p. 114, illustrated.



Exhibited

Berlin, Kunstaustellung, Zeichnende Kunst, Winter Exhibition, Secession VIII, December 1903-January 1904, no. 104.
Paris, Galeries Shirley, Aubrey Beardsley, 1872-1898, February 1907, no. 73.
Brighton, Beardsley-Garrido-Goff at the Public Art Galleries, December 1914-January 1915, no. 74.
New York, Brooklyn Museum, A Group Exhibition of Watercolor Paintings, Pastels, Drawings and Sculpture by American and European Artists, November-December 1923, no. 405.
New York, Brooklyn Museum, An Exhibition of Original Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, December 1923-January 1924, no. 42.
Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Institute, An Exhibition of Original Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, October 1924, no. 42.
London, Tate Britain and Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Aubrey Beardsley, 2020, no. 124.
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