[not one of the illustrations sold]
[Aubrey Beardsley, Of a Neophyte, and How the Black Art Was Revealed unto Him by the Fiend Asomuel, 1893, originally uploaded by Gatochy.
The Black Art, The Pall Mall Magazine, June 1893
http://beautifulcentury.blogspot.com/2007/10/aubrey-beardsley-of-neophyte-and-how.html ]
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Two illustrations by artist Aubrey Beardsley have sold for $355,500 (£240,000) at auction, after being discovered in a pensioner's bathroom.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7780441.stm
really special and interesting...
ReplyDeleteI'm not personally keen on Beardsley - a weird individual - but lots of people love his works.
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