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BEARDSLEY Aubrey

Lot 81

Ben Johnson. His Volpone: or The Fox. A new edition, with a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan and a frontispiece, five initial letters and a cover design, illustrative and decorative by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Leonard Smithers, 1898

285 x 222 mm

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Lot 81

Ben Johnson. His Volpone: or The Fox. A new edition, with a critical essay on the author by Vincent O'Sullivan and a frontispiece, five initial letters and a cover design, illustrative and decorative by Aubrey Beardsley. London: Leonard Smithers, 1898

285,0 x 222,0 mm

Estimate: £ 3,000 - 5,000

€ 3,600 - 5,900

Auction: 25 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

Beardsley was commissioned to produce the artwork for this edition of Volpone in November 1897; 24 illustrations including a frontispiece, decorative initials and a front cover design were planned. When this drawing was published in A Book of Fifty Drawings in 1897 conscience may have got the better of the artist and in Pollitt's copy of the edition de luxe Beardsley added the lettering in india ink on the reproduction

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Beardsley was commissioned to produce the artwork for this edition of Volpone in November 1897; 24 illustrations including a frontispiece, decorative initials and a front cover design were planned. When this drawing was published in A Book of Fifty Drawings in 1897 conscience may have got the better of the artist and in Pollitt's copy of the edition de luxe Beardsley added the lettering in india ink on the reproduction

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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'

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84 Self-portrait

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