AUBREY VINCENT BEARDSLEY (BRITISH, 1872-1898) - photo 1
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AUBREY VINCENT BEARDSLEY (BRITISH, 1872-1898)

Lot 11
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Lot 11 | AUBREY VINCENT BEARDSLEY (BRITISH, 1872-1898)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
AUBREY VINCENT BEARDSLEY (BRITISH, 1872-1898)
Arbuscula
signed with monogram (lower right) and inscribed, 'Don't rub (pencilling)' (on the reverse)
pencil, pen and black ink with black and wash on paper
5 3/8 x 4 1/8 in. (13.7 x 10.5 cm.); and with a slight subsidary sketch (on the reverse)




Provenance

Commissioned by William Heinemann, 1897.
More Adey by 1903.
Bought John Lane by 1904, bequeathed to
Annie (Mrs John) Lane; Anderson Galleries, 22 November 1926, lot 57.
Mrs Phyllis.J. Mayer.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 1 May 1968, lot 12 (sold to Brian Reade).
Brian Reade, bequeathed to Margaret (Mrs Brian) Reade.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 2 November 1995, lot 483 (sold to Dr Boris I. Stavroski).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 4 December 2018, lot 84, when acquired by the present owner.



Literature

A. Vallance, 'List of Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley' [revised], in R. Ross, Aubrey Beardsley, London, 1909, no. 163.
C.L. Hind, The Uncollected Work of Aubrey Beardsley, London, 1925, no. 54, reproduced.
H. MacFall, Aubrey Beardsley The Man and his Work, London, 1928, p. 95.
A.G. Gallatin, Aubrey Beardsley: Catalogue of Drawings and Bibliography, New York, 1945, no. 1062.
R.A. Walker, The Best of Beardsley, London, 1948, pl. 127, illustrated.
B. Reade, Beardsley, London, 1967, p. 364, no. 494, pl. 494.
H. Maas, J. Duncan, W. G. Good (eds.), The Letters of Aubrey Beardsley, New Jersey, 1970, pp. 363-4.
I. Fletcher, Aubrey Beardsley, Boston, 1987, p. 136.
B. Reade, Beardsley Re-Mounted, London, 1989, p. 35.
M. S. Lasner, A Selective Checklist of the Published Work of Aubrey Beardsley, Boston, 1995, no. 119.
L.G. Zaitlin, Aubrey Beardsley. A catalogue raisonne, New Haven and London, 2016, no. 1075.
S. Calloway and C. Corbeau-Parsons (eds.), Aubrey Beardsley, London, 2020, no. 195, pl. 167.



Exhibited

Berlin, Kunstaustellung, Zeichnende Kunst, Winter Exhibition, Secession VIII, December 1903 - January 1904, no. 112.
London, Carfax and Co, A Selection of Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley, 1872-1898, October 1904, no. 93.
Paris, Galeries Shirley, Aubrey Beardsley, 1872-1898, February 1907, no. 44.
London, Grafton Galleries, International Society of Sculptor, Painters and Gravers Exhibition of International Art, Fair Women, March 1909, no. 26.
New York, Berlin Photographic Company, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Catalogue of the First American Exhibition of the Original Work of Aubrey Beardsley, 21 October 1911-31 January 1912, no. 33.
Brighton, Beardsley-Garrido-Goff Exhibition at the Public Art Galleries, 12 December 1914-9 January 1915, no. 78.
New York, Brooklyn Museum, A Group Exhibition of Watercolor Paintings, Pastels, Drawings and Sculpture by American and European Artists, 19 November- 20 December 1923, no. 410.
London, Tate Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley [1872-1898], 1 November 1923-1 March 1924, no. 70.
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Manchester, Manchester Art Gallery, Bradford, Bradford Art Gallery, Southampton University, New York, Gallery of Modern Art and the Huntington Hartford Museum, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Aubrey Beardsley, 19 May 1966-4 February 1968, no. 221 (exhibited New York only).
Munich, Villa Stuck, Aubrey Beardsley in den 'Yellow Nineties' 1891-1899, Dekadenz der Modernitat, 27 September-25 November 1984, no. 264.
London, Tate Britain and Paris, Musee D'Orsay, Aubrey Beardsley, 2020, no. 195, lent by the present owner.



Engraved

Photogravure in green, A History of Dancing From the Earliest Ages to our own Times, William Heinemann, 1898, delux limited edition.
Reprinted in Under the Hill and Other Essays in Prose and Verse, London and New York, 1904.
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