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AUBREY VINCENT BEARDSLEY

Lot 84

Self-portrait

watercolour and bodycolour painted over a photograph of Beardsley taken by Frederick Hollyer

3.9 x 5.7 in (10.0 x 14.5 cm)

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Lot 84

Self-portrait

watercolour and bodycolour painted over a photograph of Beardsley taken by Frederick Hollyer

3.9 x 5.7 in (10.0 x 14.5 cm)

Estimate: £ 20,000 - 30,000

€ 24,000 - 36,000

Auction: 26 days

Christie's London

City: London

Auction: Feb 13, 2025

Auction number: 22992

Auction name: Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection

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Lot Details

signed and inscribed 'Max Beerbohm from Aubrey Beardsley'; 'Fredr Hollyer, 9 Pembroke Sqre, Kensington W' (on the reverse); with inscription 'Fred[e]r[ick] Hollyer/ 9 Pembroke Sq[ua]re/ Kensington W' (on the back of the card in red ink)

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75 The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume 1. Elkin Mathews & John L...

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76 Design for The Yellow Book, vol. 1. Design for the back cover

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77 Autograph letter signed ('Aubrey Beardsley') to [John Lane], 114 Cambridge ... , 1933

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78 Three autograph letters signed (two with initials, 'A.' and 'A.B.', one in ...

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80 A Book of Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. With an iconography by Aymer ... , 1897

One of 50 copies on japan in the publisher's vellum binding. Beardsley’s illustrations became synonymous with the aesthetic movement, depicting the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. His work was deemed too scandalous by many publishers of the period, but were published by the notorious Leonard Charles Smithers (1861-1907). Beardsley asked Smithers to destroy his erotic work just before his death in 1898, but Smithers ignored his request. Beardsley 567; Lasner 112: 'five [drawings] published for the first time including the tail-piece (a silhouette self-portrait) [...] Beardsley made the selection himself'

€ 2,400 - 3,600

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81 Ben Johnson. His Volpone: or The Fox. A new edition, with a critical essay ... , 1898

€ 3,600 - 5,900

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82 The Story Of Venus And Tannhäuser in which is set forth an exact account ... , 1907

€ 2,400 - 3,600

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83 Cabinet photograph signed ('Aubrey Beardsley') and inscribed to André Raff...

€ 4,800 - 7,100

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