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Aubrey
Beardsley
'Salome and Jokanaan' from Salome. 1894
Beardsley's Salome drawings
set new standards for decadent-themed draughtsmanship
and inspired a new generation of young artist-illustrators
intent upon emulatong his distinctive style. |
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Harry
Clark
Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock. 1913
The multi-talented Irishman
Harry Clark was a key figure in bringing the Beardsley
reigion to Ireland. Clark was a masterful illustrator,
who transformed Beardsley's high Gothic line into
new depths of depravity and invention. |
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Edmund
Dulac
Circe [The Enchantress]. 1911
Edmund Dulac was undoubtedly
the greatest rival to Arthur Rackham for the gift
book market. A master colourist, he took his inspirationfrom
the Orient and Near East creating some of the most
colourful illustrations yet published. |
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Sidney
Sime
The Wily Grasser from 'Bogey Beasts'. 1923
One of the more extraordinary
artist disciples of Beardsley. Despie his humble
background, he was a charming character devoted to
magazine illustration — he later owned and edited
his own illustrated paper. |
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Kay Nielsen
'Out of the fire jumped a little bird' 1925
This striking silhouette composition used the
popular Danish paper-cut out style and illustrations
the Grimm brothers' story of the Phoenix bird
in 'The Juniper Tree'. |
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Edmund
Dulac
The Ice Maiden 1915
'Everything about her was white, glistening and shining, so shining that the human eye could hardly bear the radiance.' from the book written by Queen Marie of Romania |
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Alastair (Hans Henning Van Voight)
The Insulting Bird 1929
An emotive fantasy for an edition of the classic French erotic novel of libertines and lost innocence Les Liaisons Dangereuses. |
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Leon Bakst
Costume Design for La Peri 1911
Designed by Leon Bakst with a swirling scarf, peackock-hued ornaments and feather headdress, this is one of Bakst's masterpieces, used in the ballet La Peri. |
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